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Dominican Rep. Simply Irresistible
- Original title
- Simply Irresistible
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 95 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sean Patrick Flanery
Patricia Clarkson
Dylan Baker- Christopher Durang
Larry Gilliard Jr.
Betty Buckley
Gabriel Macht- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Romance. Comedy | Romantic Comedy. Cooking. Magic Realism
- Synopsis
- Sarah Michelle Gellar stars as Amanda Shelton, the chef at Southern Cross, a trendy Tribeca restaurant she inherited from her legendary mother. Not the most inspired of culinary artists, Amanda is running the establishment into the ground, until a cab-driving, Cupid-like guardian angel (playwright Christopher Durang) intervenes with a magical crab that puts Amanda in the path of slick spin master Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery). Tom is opening a restaurant for his boss Jonathan Bendel, who wants to assure the eatery is no less than a four-star affair, but the temperamental French chef is giving fits to Bartlett and his secretary. Enter Amanda, who falls head over heels for Tom, love suddenly bestowing upon her the gift of infusing her dishes with powerful amorous emotions that overwhelm diners with a rapturous ecstasy.
- Critics' reviews
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"Old-fashioned and obvious, yes, like a featherweight comedy from the 1950s. But that's the charm."
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"Falls prey to the all-too-contemporary problem of complicating the tale until the ending is not only obvious, but prayed for between yawns"
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"Though glossy and smoothly directed, this limp concoction has all the sparkle of flat champagne."
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"The result is sometimes enchanting, but, more often than not, it's frustrating, because the disparate elements of the plot never quite gel."
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"This culinary fantasy is mildly inspired."
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"A bland confection that remains doggedly earthbound while attempting flights of romantic fantasy."
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