Eating Raoul

Name: Eating Raoul
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: March 24, 1982
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Ben Haller, Darcy Pulliam, John Shearin, Lynn Hobart, Mark Woods

1982

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20th Century Fox International Classics | Release Date: March 24, 1982 | R

Starring: Ben Haller, Darcy Pulliam, John Shearin, Lynn Hobart, Mark Woods, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Richard Paul, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger

Summary: A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discovers a bizarre, if not murderous, way to get funding for opening a restaurant.

Director: Paul Bartel

Genre(s): Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 90 min

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Ty Burr

Paul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy. Read full review

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The most delicious blackly comic collision of sex, food and murder, Bartel's film arrives as a delightful surprise from the former court jester of Roger Corman's exploitation stable. Read full review

Rita Kempley

Eating Raoul is an American film that's good enough to be European. [05 Nov 1982, p.19]

Vincent Canby

It is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly. Read full review

Jack Kroll

Eating Raoul is only one of the many outrageous things that Paul and Mary Bland do in this outrageous black comedy that's almost certain to be the up-from-underground movie of the year. [11 Oct 1982, p.103]

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The appeal of Paul Bartel’s tongue-in-cheek approach is that he manages to take his story to such a ridiculous extreme, remain genuinely funny and successfully tell his perverse story. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Problem is, it's so laid-back it eventually gets monotonous. If the style and pacing had been as outrageous as the subject matter, we might have had something really amazing here. Read full review

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doebrei

Aug 21, 2022

Does not hold up, jokes are very obvious and at least for me they mostly all ran flat

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