- williamparr67221 april 2026Adore it!! Catherine represents my passion for cooking food to its perfection and dealing with rude people who have no idea how to cook.
- Shaydeknight11 augustus 2026No Reservations is a cute romcom, with a hint of darkness and a splash of tragedy running beneath its otherwise light surface. The setup carries real emotional weight. Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a talented but exacting New York chef, is left to raise her niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) after Zoe's mother, Kate's sister, dies in a car accident. The arrangement is difficult from the start. Kate has no idea how to care for a child, and Zoe is struggling to adjust to a life she never asked for. Kate's chaotic hours at the restaurant only compound the strain, and things unravel to the point where Paula (Patricia Clarkson) brings in another chef, Nick (Aaron Eckhart), to help pick up the slack. Unfortunately, what follows is remarkably derivative and predictable. Kate and Nick hate each other initially, then fall for each other, in a manner so telegraphed that one can predict nearly every scene days before it arrives. It's about the most tired script I've seen in a long while, and the film never once deviates from it: no surprises, no curveballs, nothing left to chance. The writing is so schmaltzy, so saccharine, so sappy, that one has to wonder why the filmmakers bothered reaching for the emotional material they had (a dead parent, a grieving child) only to bury it under a romantic formula this well-worn. Given the strength of that setup, the script feels like a genuine missed opportunity, one step up from a Hallmark movie and not much more. The cast does a great job with what they're given. Zeta-Jones and Eckhart have decent chemistry, and Breslin holds her own, but no amount of skilled performance can inject surprise into a story that refuses to offer any. The direction is fine and the acting is fine; the story itself is merely adequate and the characters are so stereotypical they make you want to laugh. All in all, No Reservations is watchable but forgettable, more a romcom template than a fresh film. Stick with the original German version Mostly Martha, it's just a better film.
- parktool6926 augustus 2025mildly interesting movie
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No Reservations was released on 27 juli 2007.
No Reservations was directed by Scott Hicks.
No Reservations has a runtime of 1 u, 44 m.
No Reservations was produced by Kerry Heysen, Sergio Aguero.
Chef-kok Kate Armstrong leeft haar leven zoals ze haar keuken runt in een trendy restaurant in Manhattan; zonder flauwekul. Haar werkwijze is zowel charmant als intimiderend voor de mensen om haar heen. Kate coördineert tijdens hectische diensten - zonder moeite - honderden maaltijden en haar gerechten zijn tot in de puntjes perfect bereid.
The key characters in No Reservations are Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones), Nick (Aaron Eckhart), Zoe (Abigail Breslin).
No Reservations is rated AL.
No Reservations is a Komedie, Drama, Romantiek film.
No Reservations has an audience rating of 6.2 out of 10.
No Reservations had a budget of US$ 28 mln..
No Reservations has made US$ 92,6 mln. at the box office.