Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.
Genre(s): Comedy
Runtime: 84 minutes
Rating: 6.3/10 (1,119 votes)
Release Date: 10 March 2007
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: InDigEnt (Independent Digital Entertainment)
Director(s): Michael Lehmann
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Producer(s):
Jake Abraham - producer
Karey Kirkpatrick - producer
Sophia Lin - line producer
Mark Ross - producer
Gary Winick - producer
Writer(s):
Chris Poche - (written by) &
Karey Kirkpatrick - (written by)
Cast:
Aaron Stanford - Neal Downs
Zooey Deschanel - Miss Pussy Katz
Izabella Miko - Strawberry
Christopher C. Brown - Construction Worker
Robb Conner - Winston
Gary Desroche - Lawyer
Ryan Donowho - Skinny Larry
Anthony Michael Frederick - Process Serving Deputy
Anthony Gangi - Waiter
B.J. Hopper - Old Tom
Music: Jason Derlatka, Jon Ehrlich
Jake Abraham - producer
Karey Kirkpatrick - producer
Sophia Lin - line producer
Mark Ross - producer
Gary Winick - producer
Writer(s):
Chris Poche - (written by) &
Karey Kirkpatrick - (written by)
Cast:
Aaron Stanford - Neal Downs
Zooey Deschanel - Miss Pussy Katz
Izabella Miko - Strawberry
Christopher C. Brown - Construction Worker
Robb Conner - Winston
Gary Desroche - Lawyer
Ryan Donowho - Skinny Larry
Anthony Michael Frederick - Process Serving Deputy
Anthony Gangi - Waiter
B.J. Hopper - Old Tom
Music: Jason Derlatka, Jon Ehrlich
Posted on: December 22, 2007
Posted in: Comedy
March 12th, 2007
Just saw this at the SXSW film festival and found it pretty damn fun.The dialog is kludgey in spots, and I'm not sure they sold the romanticrelationship between the two leads well enough, but there are somefunny, clever moments with the main story about the competing cerealbars, and the concept itself I thought was fun. Christopher Lloyd has afew nice moments here and there. Deschanel is a blast as always. Acurious thing to note, but I liked the set design/art direction quite abit. Gave the competing venues a real personality of their own. There'sstill no word on distribution, but I'm hopeful that a good reception atSXSW will give it some momentum in that direction.
April 30th, 2007
Michael Lehmann's new film, Flakes, could have been a quirky comedy,centered on a new type of concept "cereal" bar. Instead, it tries toohard to be a romantic comedy with a quirky setting, and unfortunately,doesn't really deliver anything romantic or comedic. I mean, thesetting really is great. And the overlying plot–young entrepreneurthreatens to Starbuck over a local establishment with a localfollowing–might have worked, if the film had been completelydifferent.
But instead of focusing on the fact that these guys live, eat andbreathe cereal, Lehmann decides to cliché it all up by introducing thesame old, badly written girl-wants-slackerboy-to-quitworking-his-dead-end-job-and-focus-on-his-aspiring-music-career theme.And because of this, we never really get to learn that much aboutcereal, or what great toys come out of cereal boxes, or really anythingcool at all. We do get some slack-off acting and a shameful appearanceby Christopher Lloyd. All-in-all, it's a waste of time and plays morelike a badly written sitcom than an actual feature film.