The Casserole Club

Steve Balderson's The Casserole Club: A Review by William Butler
The Casserole Club by Steve Balderson is one dish you can't stop eating. You will savor each bite as if it were your last. What leads from a quaint get together of friends and neighbors, turns into an exploration of dark inner feelings and desires. Steve Balderson brings you into the lives of five couples: Sugar (Susan Traylor) and Conrad (Kevin Richardson), Kitty (Starina Johnson) and Sterling (Garrett Swann), Jerome (Daniela Sea) and Leslie (Mark Booker), Marybelle (Jennifer Grace) and Max (Michael Maize), and finally Florene (Pleasant Gehman) and Burt (Hunter Bodine).
Sugar (Traylor) suggests that the women make a casserole dish and bring it to a little get together and let their husbands judge who made the best dish. The winner gets a T-shirt that says "Queen Casserole". This is only the beginning of what lies beneath the happy exterior of these home makers. The Casserole Club starts off as a comedy but quickly changes directions into a drama from this point on.
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Movie was ok. Acting was ok. Story was odd but expected. Ending was abrupt. Love the setting of the movie and costuming. Character development was good. Intended or not, this movie left me feeling a bit disturbed, and wanting... As mentioned earlier it ended a bit abruptly.

A review by Dr. Joseph Suglia
A review by Dr. Joseph Suglia

Steve Balderson's The Casserole Club (2011) is a film about a group of very nasty, very selfish suburbanites in the late-1960s who try to escape the plastic tedium of their lives through ritualistic spouse-swapping. This one-sentence synopsis hardly does the film justice. Watching it is like being thrown around a cage by a gorilla at your local elementary school's Christmas pageant.

Usually, when you watch a mainstream Hollywood film, you know exactly who the characters are--often before the film even starts, thanks to the super-saturations of advertisement. And not long after the film starts, after the ham-fisted labeling of every quirk, every gesture, every impetus, you know where the characters are going. You know where the characters come from. You know what the characters are going to do. There is seldom any surprise.

In the case of The Casserole Club, it is impossible to anticipate what will happen next, how the film...

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