Eating Raoul
1982 · Movie · R · 87 min · ★ 6.5 · 78% critics
A straight-laced married couple, fed up with the swingers in their apartment building and desperate to fund a restaurant dream, stumble into an unexpected money-making scheme. As their plan grows, they’re pulled deeper into a bizarre, sex-soaked world that tests their comfort zone and their partnership.
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Details
- Years
- 1982
- Release date
- 1982-03-24
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 78/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (149 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want an offbeat, dark, deadpan comedy that skewers sexual hypocrisy and keeps the violence mostly implied; Not for you if explicit kink jokes or grim humor turn you off, like in Killer Joe.
Pros: wicked deadpan humor; clever satirical premise; memorable running gags | Cons: low-budget roughness; uneven or repetitive laughs; dated sleaze factor
Themes
- locksmith
- restaurant
- dark comedy
- dominatrix
- wine
- murder
- cannibal
- swinger
Cast & crew
Paul Bartel
as Paul Bland
Mary Woronov
as Mary Bland
Robert Beltran
as Raoul Mendoza
- SS
Susan Saiger
as Doris the Dominatrix / Nurse Sally Cummings
Richard Paul
as Mr. Cray
- JS
John Shearin
as Mr. Baker
- DP
Darcy Pulliam
as Nurse Sheila
Garry Goodrow
as Drunk Swinger
Richard Blackburn
as James from the Valley
Hamilton Camp
as John Peck
Directed by Paul Bartel