with Daniel Barnz, Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Chris Messina, Mamie Gummer, Lucy Punch, Britt Robertson, Paula Cale, Ashley Crow, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Camille Guaty, Allen Maldonado, Camille Mana, Julio Oscar Mechoso
Saddled with chronic pain, Claire Simmons has kept a sense of humor, even if it's of the acidic, angry variety. Upset but gripped by curiosity when a member of her support group kills herself, Claire decides to excavate the truths behind the suicide.
I don't know how this director went from Beastly to Cake, but definitely he jumped to a much different level. This movie is beautiful, funny, extremely sad, and made with a finesse and sensitivity that really showcase American cinema at its best. And Jennifer Aniston is outstanding in it, as well as Adriana Barraza. As much as I love Jennifer Aniston in her more funny roles, she managed here to get us to our guts, with the nuance of a person having experienced physical and mental pain beyond possible, and going through a journey of anger, chaos, depression, and growing out of it with a complex mix of wider understanding of human miseries and beauty. The experience of watching the movie is painful, happy, sad but most of all transformative.
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