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With her crisp diction and no-nonsense demeanor, Kathleen Chalfant is often cast as the voice of reason. She appears onscreen at pivotal moments, sets the protagonist straight, and is gone. The promise of Isn't It Delicious is that Chalfant plays the lead, and uses the opportunity to deconstruct one of the poised, imposing characters she's known for. The first glimpse of Chalfant as Connecticut matriarch Joan Weldon finds her meditatively smoking like a patrician femme fatale. Joan then joins her soft-spoken husband, Bill (Keir Dullea), to attend his brother's funeral, a family gathering that brings simmering conflicts to full boil. When director Michael Patrick Kelly and screenwriter Kathleen J. Kiley (both making their first feature film) focus on Joan, Isn't It Deli...

The ultra-low budget film Isn't It Delicious, which can be seen in the upcoming Manhattan Film Festival, stars award-winning theater actors, Kathleen Chalfant, Keir Dullea and Alice Ripley, who skillfully demonstrate that all the world is indeed a stage as they play out their drama and antics across Connecticut and New York City. 'Isn't It Delicious' will screen twice at the Quad Theatre tonight, June 23rd and the 25th respectively. The 1st screening is already sold out.

The ultra-low budget film Isn't It Delicious, which can be seen in the upcoming Manhattan Film Festival, stars award-winning theater actors, Kathleen Chalfant, Keir Dullea and Alice Ripley, who skillfully demonstrate that all the world is indeed a stage as they play out their drama and antics across Connecticut and New York City. 'Isn't It Delicious' will screen twice at the Quad Theatre on June 23rd and 25th respectively. The 1st screening is already sold out.

Tony Award winner Alice Ripley stars in 'Isn't It Delicious,' alongside Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, Kathleen Chalfant and Malachy McCourt. The film is 'Isn't It Delicious' is described as a black comedy about a loving but dysfunctional Catholic, upper-middle-class family gathering after it learns its controlling matriarch is dying of cancer. Michael Patrick Kelly directs.Check out the trailer below...