Eating Raoul (1982)

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Eating Raoul (1982) – P. Bartel

Uproarious low budget black comedy about a straight-laced couple, Paul and Mary Bland (played adroitly with deadpan by director Paul Bartel and Warhol regular Mary Woronov), who are broke but need an enormous deposit to start up their dream restaurant (Paul and Mary’s Country Kitchen).  They are at their wits’ end and the fact that their building is over-run with swingers doesn’t make things easier – until they stumble on an ingenious plan to raise money (involving a dominatrix, swingers, a frying pan, and professional thief Raoul).  To say more would be criminal – but this is most assuredly for adults only.  Swing on this!