Talk:Cake (2014 film)
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Observations.[edit]
1. The article on Marianne Jean-Baptiste links here as though she is in the film or has worked on it. I don't find her listed in this article, however. Is this information an error?
2. The plot summary section needs help tightening up, eliminating superfluous clauses and sentences, fixing the grammar, fixing agreement. Will someone who has seen this film (and therefore knows what's important to the plot summary) please adopt the article and repair it?
Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 03:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
Plot - removed text[edit]
Two edits in 2015 significantly reduced the amount of text that described the plot. I find the current version to be unclear and far too short. I'm posting what was removed, here, for someone else to consider adding back, in part or in whole.
The movie opens at a meeting of women in a chronic pain support group, who discuss the recent suicide of their member Nina (Anna Kendrick). Claire (Jennifer Aniston) is asked to find another group because of her comments about Nina.
Soon after, Claire is restless because of her pain. Hearing a knock, she gets up to look in the backyard, where she sees Nina, lounging on an inflatable raft. Nina taunts her, and Claire wakes up from the nightmare.
Claire goes to the support group office and threatens to sue the group for discrimination in order to obtain Nina’s address. Claire goes to Nina's house where she meets her widowed husband, Roy (Sam Worthington).
After they meet another time, Claire asks Roy to sleep with her, for the comfort of both. At another time, Roy and his son go to a restaurant with Claire. There she sees Nina again and confronts her, but the vision disappears.
At her aquatic therapy class, Claire apologizes to the teacher. She next goes to the support center and apologizes to its director. Roy and his son go to Claire’s house for lunch and the boy wants to go swimming, but hasn't brought his swimsuit. Claire suggests he use one of her late son's suits, and goes into his room to get it for the first time since his death.
During lunch, the man who caused the car accident that killed her son and injured her arrives. When he apologizes, Claire breaks down.
Claire later takes numerous pills, overdoses and is taken to the hospital. She starts hallucinating and having flashbacks of her accident. She awakens in the hospital to Silvana at her bedside, praying with rosary beads. During another hallucinatory episode, Nina brings Claire a cake.
After being released from the hospital, Claire asks Silvana to take her to Riverside. While watching a movie at the drive-in, Claire is in pain without her drugs and says she needs to get out of the car. She sneaks through a hole in the fence and sees Nina sitting on train tracks. Claire joins her in lying on a rail. Nina encourages her to acknowledge being a good mother, and disappears.
Silvana finds Claire on the tracks and yells at her in Spanish about her behavior. Silvana is interrupted when Claire points out their car has been stolen. Claire and Silvana take a cab to a motel and spend the night. The next morning a young runaway girl, Becky (Britt Robertson), tries to break into their rental car but runs into Claire lying back in the passenger seat; they give her a ride. Claire offers Becky $100 to make her a yellow cake with fudge frosting from scratch. When they get back to her place, there is a note on the kitchen counter from Claire’s husband, Jason (Chris Messina), who has returned a picture of Claire and her son to the wall in the living room. Claire cries but leaves the picture hanging.
Later Silvana informs Claire that the runaway girl has stolen her purse. Claire is not angry, saying "She's just a kid." On the counter is the homemade cake. Claire delivers the cake to Roy’s house fulfilling Nina's wish, along with a shark kite for his son’s birthday. Silvana drives Claire to her son’s gravesite. She puts wind chimes over his grave, just like Roy did at Nina’s. Back in the car, Claire has a sudden urge to try to sit upright. She pulls the lever, the chair returns to sitting position and Claire exhales deeply.
-- John Broughton (♫♫) 03:36, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures International[edit]
This film have been only distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy distribution arm, but not in the United States. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.255.216.208 (talk) 03:36, 15 December 2018 (UTC)