
When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartement (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small resturant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until on... (Full plot summary below)
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When a Paul enters his apartment to find Mary fighting off a swinger who has gotten into the wrong apartement (and thinks that Mary is just playing hard to get) he hits the man with a frying pan, killing him. Their dreams of running a small resturant seem to be in jeopardy until they decide to dispose of the body, keep the wallet, and to advertise for other sexually oriented visitors who are summarily killed, bagged, robbed and disposed of. This goes along quite well until one night a burglar named Raoul breaks in and cuts himself in for a piece of the action.
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| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntThe acting duo of Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel deliver a nonchalant comedic style of delivery, this odd matter-of-factly placidness in a sea of mayhem abounding...Read on-> |
| Washington PostRita KempleyA delirious rejoinder to the post-sexual revolution counter-culture wars, director Paul Bartel’s script crosses the let’s-get-down-to-social-brass-tacks satire of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, which was respectfully vindictive of Los Angeles’s middle-class hedonism, with the straight-faced über-misanthropy of Kind Hearts and Coronets. |
| Entertainment WeeklyTy BurrPaul and Mary Bland stop at nothing to open a restaurant in Paul Bartel’s scabrous black comedy. |
| Boston GlobeBruce McCabePaul Bartel's Eating Raoul is about lurid sex, murder, cannibalism and greed. It's also the best comedy of the fall season. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDespite the casual homicide and a premise rich with Reagan-era political undertones, the gleeful satire draws inspiration as much from Bugs Bunny as Luis Buñuel. |
| NewsweekJack KrollIt is full of smiles, punctuated here and there by marvelously unseemly guffaws, but most of the time it works its little wonders quietly. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyBartel's cult classic paved the way for many rude satires about sex, murder, and cannibalism. |
| Film ThreatMatthew SorrentoNicely lays out capitalism on the chopping block. In an obsessively consumptive culture like America's, the only way for a common couple to strive is through killing, then consuming. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatEating Raoul is a lively black comedy about the aftershocks of the sexual revolution in America. |
| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyMade on a non-existent budget, here is a kick right in Hollywood's bloated butt. |