THE KITCHEN
BY CHRISTOPHER HASKELL
JULY 20, 2013
Set more like a stage play, “The Kitchen” focuses on a small group of friends dealing with relationships and life decisions ranging from breaking up with boyfriends to pregnancy. Laura Prepon plays a somewhat uptight art gallery owner who hates birthdays. The film focuses on her plight to get through the night of her birthday party. The gorgeous Dreama Walker plays Penny, Jennifer’s sister, who is always in the mix yet somewhat removed from the entire group of friends.
All of this would be a lot more interesting had it played out more like the classic “Can’t Hardly Wait,” a similar party film with a ranging group of friends. Instead, “The Kitchen” remains stale and stagnant, taking place almost entirely in, you guessed it, the kitchen. With half the story arcs never coming to a conclusion and the other half taking giant leaps to reach their unwarranted climaxes, the film drops the ball at being anything more than just a sub-standard independent cinema with a group of talented yet underutilized young actors.
RELEASE DATE
March 14, 2013
DIRECTOR
Ishai Setton
WRITTEN BY
Jim Beggarly
STUDIO
Monterey Media
R
(for language and some sexual content)
COMEDY
DRAMA
80 minutes
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Josh Silfen
COMPOSER
Erik Desiderio
EDITOR
Mark Scovil
CAST
Laura Prepon
Bryan Greenberg
Dreama Walker
Matt Bush
Tate Ellington
PRODUCED BY
Emily Ting
