Eclairs at the Southern Cross.
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Sat, Jul 30, 2011 5:39 PM EDT
Amanda Shelton (Sarah Michelle Gellar), is an extremely untalented chef with a restaurant she can barely keep in business.
The restaurant (The Southern Cross) was inherited from her mother, and together with her Aunt Stella (Betty Buckley), and a sous chef named Nolan (Larry Gillard Jr.) has been barely making it, thanks to four loyal customers who knew her mother, and eat there mostly to provide moral support.
Then on one fateful day, Aunt Stella informs Amanda that they're not making it, and haven't been for quite sometime. The restaurant has to fold, and there is nothing they can do about it.
Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flannery) is a frazzled department store executive trying hard to please his difficult French chef Valderon (Olek Krupa) for the opening of Jonathan's, a fancy restaurant named after his feisty boss Jonathan Bendel (Dylan Baker) who's desperate to outshine his famous grandfather Henry.
Tom's assistant Lois (Patricia Clarkson) is madly in love with Jonathan and will do anything to get him.
"Everybody has a weakness." she says to Tom "What's his?"
"Immortality." Tom replies.
Tom is going through some romantic difficulties himself as his girlfriend Chris (Amanda Peet), whom he's only known for three days, is suddenly moving the relationship into faster, more serious geer.
But all of their lives take an unexpected turn when, after a few skillful manouvers by an angel named Gene O'Reilly (Christopher Durang), Tom finds himself at Amanda's restaurant, eating a mysteriously divine crab Napoleon, and placidly listening while a possesed Chris breaks up with him.
Suddenly Amanda's cooking goes from inedible to magically delicious.
Suddeny Tom is feeling hopelessly attracted to her, and is trying hard to resist the emotion.
Suddenly Lois, who has found the key to Jonathan's heart, and used it...
("...not Henry. You. You will be...IMMORTAL!"), is feeding him Amanda's eclairs in the elevator, and getting him to make out with her.
But when the magic starts getting out of hand, Tom freaks out, and accuses Amanda of being a witch.
This is a terrific romantic comedy.
Original and funny, well-scripted and well-acted.
It's Sarah Michelle Gellar's best role.
And easily one of my favorite movies of all time.
Like a fairy-tale, this type of story will cheer you up when you depressed, and make you feel that anything is possible.
The restaurant (The Southern Cross) was inherited from her mother, and together with her Aunt Stella (Betty Buckley), and a sous chef named Nolan (Larry Gillard Jr.) has been barely making it, thanks to four loyal customers who knew her mother, and eat there mostly to provide moral support.
Then on one fateful day, Aunt Stella informs Amanda that they're not making it, and haven't been for quite sometime. The restaurant has to fold, and there is nothing they can do about it.
Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flannery) is a frazzled department store executive trying hard to please his difficult French chef Valderon (Olek Krupa) for the opening of Jonathan's, a fancy restaurant named after his feisty boss Jonathan Bendel (Dylan Baker) who's desperate to outshine his famous grandfather Henry.
Tom's assistant Lois (Patricia Clarkson) is madly in love with Jonathan and will do anything to get him.
"Everybody has a weakness." she says to Tom "What's his?"
"Immortality." Tom replies.
Tom is going through some romantic difficulties himself as his girlfriend Chris (Amanda Peet), whom he's only known for three days, is suddenly moving the relationship into faster, more serious geer.
But all of their lives take an unexpected turn when, after a few skillful manouvers by an angel named Gene O'Reilly (Christopher Durang), Tom finds himself at Amanda's restaurant, eating a mysteriously divine crab Napoleon, and placidly listening while a possesed Chris breaks up with him.
Suddenly Amanda's cooking goes from inedible to magically delicious.
Suddeny Tom is feeling hopelessly attracted to her, and is trying hard to resist the emotion.
Suddenly Lois, who has found the key to Jonathan's heart, and used it...
("...not Henry. You. You will be...IMMORTAL!"), is feeding him Amanda's eclairs in the elevator, and getting him to make out with her.
But when the magic starts getting out of hand, Tom freaks out, and accuses Amanda of being a witch.
This is a terrific romantic comedy.
Original and funny, well-scripted and well-acted.
It's Sarah Michelle Gellar's best role.
And easily one of my favorite movies of all time.
Like a fairy-tale, this type of story will cheer you up when you depressed, and make you feel that anything is possible.
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