Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023) (original) (raw)

Based on the cookbook Sitting in Bars with Cake by Audrey Shulman.

Based on the cookbook Sitting in Bars with Cake by Audrey Shulman. (less)

Director: Trish Sie
Starring: Bette Midler, Yara Shahidi, Ron Livingston, Martha Kelly, Maia Mitchell, Simone Recasner

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Review

Review by Brian Orndorf, September 7, 2023

6 / 10

Now here�s an odd movie. �Sitting in Bars with Cake� takes its title from Audrey Schulman�s 2015 book, where the single woman spent a year bringing treats to dates, hoping to make a love connection via the power of sweets (calling it �cakebarring�). The literary offering was a mix of memoir and cookbook, with Schulman gifting recipes to readers, helping them to play along with her extended experiment. Eight years later, there�s a film adaptation of �Sitting in Bars with Cake,� only it doesn�t really follow the events of the book, with Schulman electing to expand on a blog post about a relation ...read more...

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