Cake **

Daniel Barnz directed this Drama. Watch Preview. Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Felicity Huffman, Sam Worthington, Anna Kendrick, Camille Mana, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chris Messina, William H. Macy. Britt Robertson, Lucy Walters, Manuel Garcia Rulfo. Rated R for language, substance abuse and brief sexuality. Running time is one hour and forty-two minutes.

A woman (Aniston) in constant pain is traumatized by the suicide of a fellow sufferer.

The main draw of this film is seeing Aniston in a straight dramatic role. She's quite believable as a woman wracked with pain and hooked on pain killers as a consequence. But, even though you may feel sorry for her, you don't like her, and that's a problem because it keeps the viewers uninvolved. The rest of the cast, capable as they are, are relatively unimportant. Huffman and Macy are easy to miss entirely if you blink at the wrong time. This feels like a film vehicle designed to show Aniston's acting range without much consideration for the audience. If you're into heavy drama, so be it. But for me, this was just depressing, and I find it hard to recommend.

There are no additional scenes once the final credits begin. Screen size is unimportant. Theatre/Time.