Main Cast: Candice Azzara, Michael Des Barres, Jorja Fox, Katherine Kendall, Suzanne Mara
Release Year: 1999
Country: US
Run Time: 93 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
Gregory Ruzzin directs this romantic comedy about 30-somethings looking for love. Divorcee Delmar and her roommate Hortense prepare for one of their usual dinner parties for their sundry friends and associates. Hortense is anxiously waiting for her boyfriend Stanley (Paul Provenza) to propose, but instead he proposes an unusual request to Delmar: Would she being to bear a child for his boss and barren wife? Delmar agrees. Meanwhile, shy Moses (Bill Nunn) who lives in an old Cadillac, is being sought after by Delmar's brother Jethro and his buddy Marlon. Melodramatic twists and turns ensue before the ultimately upbeat ending. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Peter Murnik - Jethro Youngblood; Paul Provenza - Stanley Diggers; David Shackelford - Marlon; W. Morgan Sheppard - Mr.Ringold
Credit
Peggy Larson - Casting, Robert Lynn New - Co-producer, Katie Saunders - Costume Designer, Jonathan Southard - First Assistant Director, Gregory Ruzzin - Director, Kimberly Becker - Executive Producer, Jim Glander - Line Producer, Larry A. Brown - Composer (Music Score), Spencer Proffer - Musical Direction/Supervision, Timothy Duffy - Production Designer, Robert F. Smith - Cinematographer, Amy Sommer Gifford - Producer, Dan Gifford - Producer, David Schaaf - Sound/Sound Designer, Tim Kimmel - Sound Editor, Fred H. Dresch - Screenwriter, Ron Ratliff - Screenwriter, Andrew Frank - Supervising Editor, Stephen Myers - Supervising Editor
The Hungry Bachelors Club is a 1999 American film directed by Gregory Ruzzin, based on the novel of the same name by Lynn Scott Myers. The film was retitled Food for the Heart for its DVD release.
Plot
Delmar Youngblood is a single mother with a passion for cooking; she dreams of opening her own restaurant called Food for the Heart, but in reality has a low-paid job as an insurance adjuster. Her best friend and roommate Hortense believes she would be a perfect wife for lawyer Stanley Diggers, though he wishes to advance his career before making a commitment. With their culinary talents and gift for hospitality, the two women host regular dinner parties for an assortment of family and friends. These include Jethro, Delmar's brother, who is a Mayananthropology professor with an obsession for vintage Cadillacs, and his best friend Marlon, a freelance writer. There is also their pianist mother, Hannibal Youngblood, and her boyfiend, Mr. Ringold. When a friend of Hannibal's unexpectedly dies on one of these gatherings, her estranged daughter Missy Bainbridge comes to collect the body, and strikes up a relationship with Jethro.
While searching through a junkyard to rescue a doomed Cadillac, Jethro and Marlon meet and befriend Moses Grady, a former convict who joins the gang and finds new purpose when he becomes attached to Delmar and her dream. Things get serious when Stanley makes Delmar an offer: he wants her to become a surrogate mother on behalf of his bigoted boss Mr. Spinner, whose wife is unable to conceive. This arrangement would provide Delmar with the money she needs to open her restauarant, make Stanley a partner in his law firm, and give Hortense the engagement ring she craves. Delmar accepts, and opens her restaurant in partnership with Moses, but in the third trimester she decides to keep the baby.
