Of all the misleading titles, “Cake” takes the… Yeah. It’s a chronic-pain movie. Why “Cake?”
Because Claire’s (Jennifer Aniston) life is no cakewalk. There’s no icing on. Or piece of. Cake refers to a late-in-the-movie situation wherein a young hitchhiking actress-wannabe bakes Claire a cake upon request and then steals her car. Now you understand the title, right? It makes perfect sense now.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Claire’s a wealthy L.A. lawyer who got smashed up in a car accident that killed her child and left her physically and emotionally scarred, in chronic pain, and so bitter that she gets booted from her grief support group.
Jennifer Aniston as a lawyer with chronic pain in "Cake." Cinelou
