No Reservations
by Scott Hicks
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Actor: Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenny Wade, Patricia ClarksonDirector: Scott Hicks
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of No Reservations
DVD Review: Typical, but great!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband picked this movie up without me knowing by just reading the back of the DVD. I had never heard of it before but it turned out to be really good. Of course it is typical, but what movie of this genre isn't? It is a little funny and the three main characters are a pleasure to watch. I also love baking/cooking so maybe that helps steer my opinion. Anyway, well worth the watch and it will make it into my regular rotation of good chick flicks!DVD Review: Great movie purchase
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was delivered as advertised, on time and in perfect condition. Will use this Amazon supplier again.DVD Review: More like fast food than fine cuisine
Summary: 3 Stars
There's nothing surprising or new about this movie at all - watching it may give you a sense of d?j?-vu, even if you've never seen it before. All the elements are simply recycled feel-good romantic comedy bits. Still, it doesn't make it a horrible movie, just a predictable one.
The actors do a good job with the characters (especially the 'ice queen' of a heroine), the dialogue is fun, and the story moves nicely, even if you do know what's about to happen. It is a quintessential 'chick flick'. Boy meets girl, girl dislikes boy, boy and girl squabble, boy and girl fall madly in love. The cooking and child made for an interesting backdrop to the story, but it still rates solidly as an 'okay' movie. One you might put in a set of rainy Sunday afternoon feel-good movies, though it might not make the cut over some of the more charming movie of this genre.
DVD Review: Lightweight and a bit dour
Summary: 3 Stars
Zeta-Jones plays a somewhat mentally disturbed chef here who is saddled with raising her late sister's child, but doesn't know how. The movie can't decide if it's a comedy or a melodrama, so every time it flags you get a large dose of cute from the child in question. There's a love story here somewhere, too, naturally, but it lacks much heat. This was a summer movie and that's what it remains. Just okay.DVD Review: Table For Three?
Summary: 4 Stars
This space is usually reserved for reviews of serious political and historical works, various past trends in film and music or the like. Every once in a while, however, this reviewer comes across a quirky little item that requires some commentary. The film "The Waitress" about the follies and foibles of a pie-crazed mama -to-be was one such effort and the film under review, also centered on food, "No Reservations" is another. Maybe that is the key to my interest: the question of food; its necessity preparation for survival and those who are devoted to presenting it in its best light. Or maybe it is that although my members of my household, my friends and other whom I know well are aghast at the proliferation of "reality" television productions they are, to a person, wedded to some reality show called "Top Chef". Go figure.
In any case that last sentence can serve as an introduction to the story line here. Of course, with any essentially light-hearted cinematic look at the follies and foibles of a top flight chef, in this case a female one played by the fetching Catherine Zeta-Jones, outside the kitchen there has to be some romantic element. Here the boy meets girl line is completed by a new sous-chef played here by Aaron Eckhart. That too figures, although not always, as here, in New York and not always in an upscale restaurant. In short order this pair prove that too many chefs can spoil the pot. Throw in a little imp of a niece who is thrown Zeta-Jones' way after the tragic and traumatic death in an automobile accident of her sister and you have a nice little stew. Working through Zeta-Jones' love life and her new responsibilities to the niece drives the film (with a little assist from an apparently necessary tool for every New York chef- a witty "shrink"). If food is your thing, and even if it is not, this is a nice little piece of fluff to while away a couple of hours. Try the quail with truffles.
Description of No Reservations
A perfectionist chef addicted to her work struggles to adjust when her sister passes away leaving her with a little girl to raise and a new soup-chef threatens to take over her kitchen with his high-spirited and free-wheeling ways.Achieving balance in one's life can be a difficult process, but master chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) leads a regimented, very ordered existence running the kitchen of an exclusive restaurant and revels in the sense of power and control her career affords. When Kate's sister is unexpectedly killed in an automobile accident and her 9-year old niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) comes to live with Kate, Kate's life is turned completely upside down and she is suddenly forced to split her focus between work and family. Enter a newly hired, fun-loving, opera-singing sous chef Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart), whom Kate perceives as a serious rival, and thus begins an impassioned struggle on Kate's part to rein in Nick's exuberance and maintain control over her kitchen staff. Even as they clash, Kate is inexplicably drawn toward Nick, eventually coming to the realization that Nick offers something that she needs both in her restaurant kitchen and her new life with Zoe. Based on the screenplay for Mostly Martha, Catherine Zeta-Jones carries the lead well in this romantic comedy and there's a nice chemistry between herself and Aaron Eckhart as well as a poignant performance by Abigail Breslin. And, of course, and the food looks simply scrumptious. --Tami Horiuchi
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