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An opportunity for you to see how hectic it can be in a professional kitchen. Blu-ray is great. This is one time when two chefs in the kitchen do not ruin the stew. Loved the way Jones finally resolves the "rare steak" issue with a customer.

The high points are the kitchen scenes and Abigail Breslin playing the part of the niece like the old soul that she is. She thinks that her life is tightly controlled, yet she is in therapy. This is a pleasant movielight and entertainingbut nothing you can't predict shortly after these two characters are introduced. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an uptight chef who is totally in charge of the kitchen where she works. Add one orphaned niece and a free-spirited, opera-loving sous chef and suddenly her life changes drastically.

None of them does so here. I had seen the film Mostly Martha, coincidentally, less than one month before buying this movie. But the American version, set on Manhattan, just doesn't ring true. Even the shoppers in the background, walking the sidewalks of NYC's Village, are impeccably dressed Caucasians. - All restaurant kitchens are absolutely, impeccably sterile, roomy, and orderly.

I didn't realize this movie is a remakealmost on a word-for-word basisof that wonderful German film.

- There are no people of color in New York City's Greenwich Village.

The performances are bland and unworthy of any viewer engagement.

- All chefs live in $20 million apartments.

Instead of this movie, please see the original film upon which it was based: Mostly Martha was excellent, featured wonderful performances, andin wealthy Germanythe preponderance of wealthy, well-dressed White people rings much more true.

Abigail Breslin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Aaron Eckhart have all provenin different vehiclesthat they can act very well.

- New York City's street noises never invade any buildings.

If a person had never before been to New York City, or to the United States, that person watching this movie could be forgiven for believing:.

There are three people of color in this entire movie: A school principal and two restaurant workers (there were perhaps three or four times as many non-White people in the German original).

There was no real obstacle keeping these two from each other and what paper thin conflict they did have is resolved rather effortlessly. The plot is wholly predictable though well acted. Kate's character arch does allow her to let people in, but I'm not sure how she got so closed off-especially since her sister seemed quite the opposite. I have to agree with the other reviewers on this. It hardly qualifies as a romantic comedy because it simply isn't funny.