Fast Food Fast Women

Amos Kollek directs this quiet, understated comedy about lonely hearts and empty pockets in New York. Pushing 40, Bella (Anna Thomson) works as a waitress at small downtown diner in Manhattan. Her elderly regulars include Paul (Robert Modica), a lovelorn retiree who scours the personal ads and his ...more

A genial set of interlocking stories about looking for love in the Big Apple, Fast Food Fast Women is the kind of movie in which someone inherits millions of dollars for one act of kindness and keeps her day job, in spite of her professed need to quit it. If this strikes a chord with you, you will probably also find charming the regular fire-escape musings of a lovely young woman clad only in a towel, which she eventually sheds, to be picked up in the courtyard below by a vagrant. There are two ...more