An unusual credit reads 'based on an original screen play "Mostly Martha" by Sandra Nettlebeck', screenplay by Carol Fuchs. This is in fact a
very close remake of the German film
Bella Martha (from the trailer, you could almost say it's shot-for-shot - Nettelbeck directed it too). But it's not for that reason that it seems familiar - it's that it's rather predictable. Still, good fun, as obsessive chef Catherine Zeta-Jones inherits niece Abigail Breslin (engaging as ever) and falls for fellow chef Aaron Eckhardt. With Patricia Clarkson, Bob Balaban.
I thought they might have made bit more of the girl in the kitchen, picking up things and becoming chefy.
Hicks directed
Shine, Snow Falling on Cedars and
The Boys Are Back. It's shot by Stuart Dryburgh in Panavision with lots of good (i.e. Italian) opera on the soundtrack.
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| Distinctive Dryburgh blue |
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