Product Details

• Actors: Katharina Wressnig, Peter Sarsgaard, Angeline Ball, Geoffrey Lower, Liz Stauber
• Directors: Mari Kornhauser
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: XENON
• DVD Release Date: August 26, 2008
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001APMCXW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,111 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Kitchen Privileges" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Release Date: 26-AUG-2008
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars gem of a movie that stays in your mind, July 15, 2008

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Sandy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kitchen Privileges (DVD)

I saw this at a film festival and it is not a horror movie but a real gem that artfully combines suspense and romance with a sensitive portrayal of the effects of psychological trauma. Once you get past the slow beginning, it is a character driven movie, and the director's tight shooting keeps it going at a fast pace that gets your heart racing. Contains excellent early work by Peter Saarsgard. If you like early Polanski, check this out!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Kitchen Privileges", May 7, 2009

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Frank Turner III (Marina Del Rey, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kitchen Privileges (DVD)

"Kitchen Privileges" is a movie that was actually filmed in my home located in the View Park section of Los Angeles, California. The director did an excellent job of selecting a cast that worked well together in presenting the story of a young woman struggling with a mental illness. The traumatic event of being raped triggers a "fear of the market place" with auditory and hallucinations that are brought under control by her affection for a young man that rents a room in her home. Very well done but poorly publicised. Frank Turner III

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Psychological Thriller with a Catholic Slant, September 13, 2008

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Patrick McGee - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kitchen Privileges (DVD)

This movie is a taut psychological thriller that is brilliantly directed by Mari Kornhauser. The ending will not be what you expect. As the earlier reviewer said, it's really about trauma, but more importantly about the difficulty of relationship in a world where trauma has become the normal situation. I don't want to give anything away, but there is a subtle but significant Catholic slant to this movie, which seems appropriate to its New Orleans location. You don't see much of New Orleans because the camera mostly explores interior psychological space, but somehow Kornhauser's visual language brings the feeling of New Orleans into this confined world. Kornhauser's direction owes something to Polanski maybe but also to De Palma without any of the over-the-top violence. A movie not to be missed! Oh yeah, Peter Sarsgard is good too in one of his early roles, along with Wressnig and the too-rarely-seen Irish actress, Angeline Ball (Imelda Quirke in THE COMMITMENTS). But the star of this movie is Kornhauser.