MORGAN Freeman – who has devoted entirely too much of his screen career to selflessly helping white folks – is at it again in “Feast of Love,” a diabetes-inducing adaptation of a best-selling book inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Freeman gets top billing as a college professor on an extended leave after the death of his heroin-addict son. He passes his time hanging around an Oregon coffee shop with a clueless owner (Greg Kinnear) who doesn’t notice his wife (Selma Blair) has fallen in love with another woman.
Despite Freeman’s advice, Kinnear rebounds with a real-estate agent (Rahda Mitchell) having a longtime affair with a married man. Meanwhile, Freeman and his wife (Jane Alexander) have taken an interest in a pair of Kinnear’s baristas who have moved in together despite the opposition of the boy’s alcoholic father (Fred Ward).
Directed with a straight face by the once-great Robert Benton (“Kramer vs. Kramer”), “Feast of Love” contains two weddings, a funeral, much female nudity and several unintentionally funny speeches. You can see better stuff on TV any night of the week.
FEAST OF LOVE *
Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (sex, nudity, profanity). At the Empire, the Cinema 1, the Chelsea, others.