When Do We Eat?

Name: When Do We Eat?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1918-10-13

ComedyDrama50m

🍅42%

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42%

Tomatometer

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69%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

Impersonating Little Eva in a third-rate travelling production of Uncle Tom's Cabin fails to earn Nora enough for a square daily meal, and to make thing worse, her stage career comes to a sudden end when the sheriff arrives with a writ of seizure. Nora hops a passing freight but is frightened by a tramp, jumps off, and literally rolls into the town of Wattelville. After being arrested as a suspicious character, Nora is adopted by the kindly Ma Forbes, whose son James works in the local bank. "Pug" Hennessy and "Soup" McCool, two crooks, inveigle the scrupulously honest James into a poker game and, as a result, he is forced to steal $300 from the bank to cover his losses. Impersonating expert safe-cracker Velvet Mary, Nora helps the crooks to break into the bank, but upon opening the safe, she sounds the alarm, and the crooks are arrested. Having learned his lesson, James proposes to Nora, who never again is forced to go hungry.

Details

DirectorFred Niblo

ReleasedOct 13, 1918

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

3 fresh · 4 rotten

Critics consensus

“A crass, sitcom-ish holiday comedy, When Do We Eat? presents all the over-the-top dysfunctional family hijinks one would expect from the genre.”

42% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Geoff Pevere

RTToronto StarMay 5, 2006

Litvak's movie almost immediately barges across the line separating the comically absurd from the outright obnoxious.

Jason Anderson

RTGlobe and MailMay 5, 2006

Manages to be broad, mawkish and mean-spirited all at once.

Claudia Puig

RTUSA TodayMay 4, 2006

A haunting and disturbing film.

Frank Lovece

RTFilm Journal InternationalFeb 6, 2007

There's something very sweet and real beneath all the bluster, braggadocio, disgust and denial, pushing through as improbably and miraculously as Moses through the Red Sea.