Sitting in Bars with Cake is a movie adaptation of a cookbook memoir by Andrey Shulman, who also penned the screenplay. Pitch Perfect 3 director Trish Sie is at the helm and Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion (Hellraiser) stars with Bette Midler, Ron Livingston (The Flash, The 5th Wave), Martha Kelly (American Gods), Adina Porter, Navid Negahban (American Sniper) and Rish Shah (Ms. Marvel) round out the cast.

Premise: Jane (Shahidi) is a shy mousey gal who loves to bake. Her childhood best friend and roommate Corinne (A’zion) loves to party. So they combine the two talents and plan to visit 50 bars with 50 cakes all over LA-La Land. They didn’t expect Corinne to start to have headaches, which turned out to be cancer.

Review: This isn’t a pretentious movie, it’s not trying to play with your emotions with overly dramatic scenes working hard to get your tears. It’s more like a genuine movie about two friends facing a terrible diagnosis. We see their highs and lows but both remain level-headed people, they were many times during this movie where I could see when another screenwriter might milk some moments for cheap tears and drama but I was surprised at every turn.

Because of this, if you’re looking for a very syrupy cancer movie that will try to make you cry for no real reason movie on! If you tear up in this movie, it’s earned. It will have nothing to do with a sad score and imagery, it’s not a pixar movie, it will be because you came to understand the remarkable bond these two girls have. The cancer is not the catalyst for anything, the title of the movie is, sitting in bars with cake.

This movie is refreshing in the way it’s not exploiting a cancer diagnosis for sympathie and tears.

Now streaming on Prime Video

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