2007 · comedy · romance · drama
No Reservations (2007)
Directed by Scott Hicks1h 44m2007
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
Our read: No Reservations (2007) (2007) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · romance · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- redemptive
- tender
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