Film Review – Sitting in Bars with Cake

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 relationship with her best friend, who was fighting cancer during the cake-y year. The production retains the title but largely heads a different way with the story (Schulman provides the screenplay), preferring to go the tearjerker route with the feature instead of following the debatable fun of the baking journey. This results in a much heavier picture than perhaps most potential viewers are expecting, but the endeavor is certainly well-acted and attentive to the collateral damage of terminal illness, showing needed focus when exploring the delicate support system of friendship. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com