Better Than Chocolate (Region 1)

6.4	Listal rating
8	Amazon rating

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Manufacturer : Lions Gate
Release date : 28 December 1999
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 9781573627832
UPC : 031398725336

Romantic Comedy (1), lesbian (1)

Status: Watched

Description

Product DescriptionBetter than Chocolate is a sexy romp of love and lust with surprising results. Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) meets the woman of her dreams Kim (Christina Cox) just hours before her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) and brother Paul (Kevin Mundy) move in with her. When the four end up sharing a loft Maggie believes she must keep her a Product Description
Better than Chocolate is a sexy romp of love and lust with surprising results. Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) meets the woman of her dreams Kim (Christina Cox) just hours before her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) and brother Paul (Kevin Mundy) move in with her. When the four end up sharing a loft Maggie believes she must keep her affair a secret but it is Maggie's clandestine romance that inadvertently introduces her family to a host of new experiences all of which are potentially better than chocolate.Features: Dolby Stereo Letter-Box Director Commentary English Spanish and French Subtitle Trailer Scene AccessInteractive MenusFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 031398725336 Manufacturer No: 71178

Many lesbian movies are long on charm and short on production values; Better Than Chocolate has a solid dose of both and steamy sex scenes to boot. Our heroine Maggie (Karyn Dwyer), a clerk at a lesbian bookstore, meets footloose butch Kim (Christina Cox) and, after Kim's van is towed away, they move in together. Unfortunately for their romantic bliss, Maggie's mother, Lila (Wendy Crewson), and teenage brother move in that very evening thanks to Lila's impending divorce. But what really complicates matters is that Maggie can't bring herself to come out to her mother; even when she tries, Lila steamrolls through the conversation, like she knows what's coming and doesn't want to hear it. Interwoven with this is the struggle of Judy (Peter Outerbridge), a male-to-female transsexual who's in love with the bookstore's owner, Frances (Ann-Marie MacDonald), who's freaking out because customs officers are holding a list of books at the border that they claim are obscene. The overlapping plots are deftly juggled, the personal and political are compellingly interwoven, and, most satisfying of all, the characters have problems that aren't going to be easily resolved. A handful of candy-colored lip-synching musical numbers give the movie some flash and the sex scenes give the movie some heat, but it's the elements of sorrow and ambiguity that really make the joy in Better Than Chocolate something to savor. --Bret Fetzer

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