If you thought the United States cornered the market on syrupy, Hallmarky romcoms, check out this British trifle about a chef who falls in love with a restaurant critic.
Dougray Scott, the Scottish actor with the distinction of having lost the roles of both Wolverine and James Bond, stars here as Chef Rob Haley, who loses his cooking mojo after his annoying pill of a wife dies crashing her car into a truck while speeding and dialing her cellphone.
His restaurant becomes terrible as a result, leading American food critic Kate Templeton (played by Scott's real-life wife Claire Forlani) to savage the place in an anonymous review.
When Haley buys the quaint English pub he and his late wife had their eye on before her death, he finds a new purpose, his cooking skills return, and Kate, for no other reason than it services the plot, becomes his advisor of sorts, falls in love with him and connects with his tween daughter.
Complications arise when Kate's stuffy British father tries to sabotage the place because he's miffed at the traffic the popular restaurant has created.
That's it. That's pretty much the whole story. It's a traffic issue. Told you it was a trifle.
Oh, yeah. Famous hot-headed TV chef Gordon Ramsay shows up in a cameo as an empathetic sweetheart of a guy who just wants everything to work out for this lovely couple. It has to be seen to be believed, and is worth your time with this otherwise twaddle alone.
If you go for this kind of thing, like I do, you'll find "Love's Kitchen" a perfectly harmless, somewhat charming little date movie.
If you don't, you'll be reaching for some rat poison to sprinkle on your gourmet supper.
Dougray Scott, the Scottish actor with the distinction of having lost the roles of both Wolverine and James Bond, stars here as Chef Rob Haley, who loses his cooking mojo after his annoying pill of a wife dies crashing her car into a truck while speeding and dialing her cellphone.
His restaurant becomes terrible as a result, leading American food critic Kate Templeton (played by Scott's real-life wife Claire Forlani) to savage the place in an anonymous review.
When Haley buys the quaint English pub he and his late wife had their eye on before her death, he finds a new purpose, his cooking skills return, and Kate, for no other reason than it services the plot, becomes his advisor of sorts, falls in love with him and connects with his tween daughter.
Complications arise when Kate's stuffy British father tries to sabotage the place because he's miffed at the traffic the popular restaurant has created.
That's it. That's pretty much the whole story. It's a traffic issue. Told you it was a trifle.
Oh, yeah. Famous hot-headed TV chef Gordon Ramsay shows up in a cameo as an empathetic sweetheart of a guy who just wants everything to work out for this lovely couple. It has to be seen to be believed, and is worth your time with this otherwise twaddle alone.
If you go for this kind of thing, like I do, you'll find "Love's Kitchen" a perfectly harmless, somewhat charming little date movie.
If you don't, you'll be reaching for some rat poison to sprinkle on your gourmet supper.