Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Zee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli, and a very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city.

Cast

Michael Emil

as Eli

Karen Black

as Zee

Michael Margotta

as Larry

Martin Harvey Friedberg

as Mort

Frances Fisher

as Louise

Anna Raviv

as Young Woman At Cafe

Robert Hallak

as Young Man At Cafe

Daniel W. Fitzgerald

as Band Member (as the Lost Wandering Blues Band)

George Bacon

as Band Member (as the Lost Wandering Blues Band)

Joe Price

as Band Member (as the Lost Wandering Blues Band)

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