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No Reservations (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 60
Rotten:94
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus: This romantic comedy may look good on paper, but it's too predictable and melancholy for the genre.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some sensuality and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: , Romance, Tragedy, Romantic Comedy, Food, Remake, Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $43,052,274
Synopsis: A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates... A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. More at ease behind the scenes, she only leaves the sanctuary of her kitchen to accept compliments for one of her signature dishes, or, on rare occasions, to tangle with a customer who dares question her expertise. After work, most nights find her in bed before midnight, set to rise at dawn to beat her competition to the fish market for the next day's freshest selections. Kate's perfectionist nature is put to the test when a brash new sous-chef joins her staff, the high-spirited and freewheeling Nick (AARON ECKHART). A rising culinary star himself, Nick favors opera while working and loves to make everyone around him laugh. His casual approach to both life and cuisine couldn't be more different from Kate's, yet the chemistry between them is undeniable...as is the discord, like forks clanging off a granite countertop. It might be easier to deal with this turbulence at work if Kate wasn't already off-balance at home, struggling to connect with her nine-year-old niece, Zoe (ABIGAIL BRESLIN), who has recently--and very unexpectedly--come to live with her. A bright, perceptive child, more comfortable with fish sticks than foie gras, Zoe is clearly out of place in Kate's routine but Kate is determined to make a home for her...just as soon as she figures out how. As the weeks progress, Kate is not sure what steams her more--that Nick's talent scores big points with 22 Bleecker's owner, Paula (PATRICIA CLARKSON), and its discriminating clientele, or that his easygoing charm quickly wins over the shy Zoe, who finds it easier to open up to him than to her aunt. But when he challenges the boundary between rivalry and romance, Kate finds herself questioning, for the first time in years, some of the choices and beliefs that have made her so self-sufficient and so safe. If she wants to forge a real bond with Zoe, find happiness with Nick and rediscover her appetite for life, Kate will have to try something bold and new, and learn to express herself outside the realm of her kitchen. That would be like trying to cook without a recipe. But, as Kate discovers, sometimes the best recipes are the ones you create yourself. --© Warner Bros. [More]
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Patricia Clarkson, Jenny Wade, Bob Balaban
Director: Scott Hicks
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenwriter: Sandra Nettelbeck, Carol Fuchs
Producer: Sergio Aguero, Kerry Heysen
Composer: Philip Glass
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for No Reservations
Not bad, not amazing. Just a classy romantic comedy that, like a good meal, is enjoyable enough to partake of, but the taste of which will fade soon thereafter.
Catherine Zeta-Jones controls the kitchen, but can't control my attention.
Like the well-known joke about Chinese fare %u2014 No Reservations satisfies while you're sitting down at the table, but an hour later you're hungry again.
There's nothing in this story that you haven't seen before, and you'll know everything that's going to happen long before it does, yet it's all done with such charm and style that you won't care.
...there's not much sparkle in the movie and even less spark to the love story.
This many delicious ingredients should have produced a tastier, more memorable result.
A product of the sort of steely, soulless competence that marks so very many films as the work of professionals who view this as a job, not an art form.
Everyone is now richer and better looking and it's a good deal cuter and more sentimental.
Zeta-Jones, Eckhart and Breslin play second fiddle to Ratatouille in what amounts to romantic drama fast food.
Alas, this is one of those Hollywood copies that is perfectly decent in its acting and direction but hopelessly deficient in originality and any real flair.
While Zeta-Jones and Eckhart make an appealing couple, their chemistry never really develops due to the script’s complete lack of sauce.
Rarely likeable on screen, Zeta Jones has a hard time making us empathise with her Ramsay-style ballbreaker.
Hie me to the vomitorium, it's a fantastically smug and boring movie about food and romance, pumped with artificial sweeteners.
There's not an unpredictable moment in Carol Fuchs's plodding, syrupy script; this dreadful remake of the moderately pleasing German film Mostly Martha is misconceived from start to finish.
The ingredients of the German original Mostly Martha this time produce a cliché Chinese dish, forgotten a mere five minutes later.
Here is a romcom that has been developed on a Petri dish in some unspeakable secret department at the Porton Down biological warfare unit, designed to release a gaseous vapour into cinemas, rendering the civilian population immobile.
No Reservations is a light snack not a three-course meal. It’s too light and fluffy to satisfy.
After Nick’s opera karaoke I was ready to bludgeon my own ears off with a meat tenderiser.
No reservations about this one, folks, it’s bottom of the food chain.
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