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As a travel writer; 29-year-old Pippa McGee (Heather Graham) spends most of her time
traveling. There is no one expecting her anyway-the only other person at home in her dad, who is too busy with his publishing form and can't seem to take some moments for
them to greet each other, or for a chitchat.
This time home she tries again to connect with him but to no avail. However, the situation changes a few days later, when he suffers a heart attack. She takes care of everything that needs to be done for him. At the hospital and somewhat better, the father asks her to look after the publishing company. But she finds a vice president Ian Dray (Davide Sutcliffe) in charge, whom she met a while ago. They come to an agreement of sorts and she gets to do the next issue of "Wedding Bells," one of the firm's publications. She gets the assistance of all women staff, including best friend Lulu (Sandra Oh). But things become a hassle when doing the magazine requires as agreement of what goes in it, and she finds herself attracted to two guys, also keeping an eye of her father.
This is presented as a romantic comedy. While Heather Graham tool sufficient to act her
part, the others in the ensemble cast did not do as well. The story includes too many subjects for each to be effectively portrayed.
The character of Pippa however is interesting: an almost thirty-year-old "girl" is still a Peter Pan who has to grow up, see things the way she should and learn to feel and act her age.
Cake is a merry mix, but not too funny.
Pippa has traveled so much on her own and experienced a lot, yet she is not ready to get married
because of her experience of her home life.
She did not have a read relationship with her father and mother. The father gave himself to his work away from wife and child, and the mother had had her own interest. Pippa's mind was focused on what happens after marriage: no togetherness, misunderstandings, estrangement, divorce, etc. Then she and her staff, in planning the magazine agreed that, to sell, it should have subjects on love, be intimate, have a baby without necessarily touching on marriage.
Cake
shows for instances suggesting intimacy, with two of its characters, each getting involved with two different persons. In the end, Pippa and four of her friends find the meaning of love that leads to marriage.
(Date Reviewed: 03 November 2006)
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