The following essay focuses on the literary collaboration of Robert Benton and David Newman. The screenplays of Robert Benton and David Newman offer some support for the screenwriter-as-auteur theory as they display a consistent concern with a handful...

On a recent rainy Tuesday evening at an empty screening room in Times Square, writer and director Robert Benton arrived without fanfare—good-naturedly waving away all talk of a car service to pick him up—to screen Feast of Love, which opens September 28. The 74-year-old, more...

The leaves have yet to change color, but it must be fall: New York City has finally gotten serious. The Kingdom (#1) reigned over the Manhattan box office this weekend, easily out-grossing the top movie in the country, the Rock comedy The Game Plan (#4)....

FEAST OF LOVE RUNNING TIME 102 minutes DIRECTED BY Robert Benton STARRING Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell Robert Benton’s Feast of Love, from a screenplay by Allison Burnett and based on the novel by Charles Baxter, serves admirably as a playful...

That "Feast of Love" is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.That it comes from Robert Benton, a veteran whose output has slowly, steadily declined in quality since writing "Bonnie...