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Socks and Cakes (2010)
We've Been Here Before
SOCKS AND CAKES, billed as a dramedy, is writer/director Antonio Padovan's look at the lives of five New Yorkers at a dinner party in the Village, hosted by Richard and Amanda (Jeff Moffitt and Kirsty Meares).
Their guests include real estate master David (Ben Prayz), his girlfriend Sophie (Alex Vincent) and Amanda's ex-husband Harry (Timothy J. Cox), a down-on-himself college professor.
What starts out as a party turns into an evening where each guest tries to piece together the broken parts of their lives.
It had potential, but we've seen it all before.
Padovan's film tries very hard to mirror the best films of Woody Allen ("Manhattan"m "Hannah and Her Sisters") and to a lesser extent "The Big Chill", but the results are mixed.
The title is a mystery to me. For one, it's a very childish sounding title. Two, it has nothing to do with the story that is being told.
The acting is a mixed bag. Cox and Meares score as the melancholy college professor and his ex-wife, respectively, while Moffitt does nothing with his role as the womanizing Richard. Then again, he was given very little to do in the script.
It is a competently made film from director Antonio Padovan and his director of photography Alessandro Penazzi, but overall, the whole affair seems like the start of a promising film, but never quite gets off the ground.