Underplayed Gems

Love's Kitchen (2011)

Love's Kitchen poster
Directed by
James Hacking
Genre
drama film, comedy film, romance film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 96 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

A grieving chef moves to a village and opens a restaurant with his daughter. He falls for a food critic who visits the pub.

lightheartedgentlewarmquaintbittersweetpredictablesentimentalmild

What happens

Love's Kitchen (originally titled No Ordinary Trifle) is a 2011 British romantic comedy film directed by James Hacking and starring Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani, Michelle Ryan, and featured celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in his first acting role. Hacking also wrote the script for the film, and it was the director's first feature-length film. The once coveted London chef Rob Haley visits a village pub, three years after his wife's accidental death, hoping to motivate himself to create quality again. He meets a cute food critic there, buys it to open a restaurant and move there with his daughter. The film received a limited theatrical release in the UK, taking £121 on its opening weekend from five screens. It was released direct to DVD in the United States. Film critics gave it mostly negative reviews, and the film received a score of 19% on Rotten Tomatoes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.