Simply irresistible (film)

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Movie
German title Simply irresistible
Original title Simply irresistible
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Mark Tarlov
script Judith Roberts
production Jon Amiel ,
Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. ,
John Fiedler
music Gil Goldstein
camera Robert M. Stevens
cut Paul Karasick
occupation

Simply Irresistible ( Simply Irresistible ) is an American fantasy love story of Mark Tarlov . The film premiered in the USA in January 1999, and in Germany it was not released until a year later.

content

The young cook Amanda Shelton and her aunt Stella run their late mother's restaurant , which is not doing very well and is threatened with closure. While shopping at a market, she meets a mysterious stranger who sells her a basket of live crabs, and the smart and handsome department store manager Tom Bartlett.

The stranger from the market ends up Tom and his girlfriend Chris in Amanda's restaurant. They expect her to have a crab dish because she told Tom about her cooking skills at the market. One of the crabs proves to be a "magic crab" and causes the dish to succeed and Chris behaves completely wrong when she herself suddenly fervently enumerates all the prejudices Amanda has against her, throws plates, smears Tom with food and leaves it in the end.

Tom then offers Amanda to replace the dishes . She visits him in his department store to choose new plates, and the two get closer. Her restaurant is also doing well again after cancer helped her to improve her cooking skills. At a meeting in the restaurant where Amanda is preparing a magical dessert, the two of them kiss and float in the air (probably also a work of Cancer). Tom now thinks she is a witch and gets into an argument with Amanda about it.

The next day she visits him in the department store to bring back something that he had left with her. At the same time, the top chef who was supposed to cook at the department store restaurant's gala quits, and Amanda steps in against Tom's will. Here, too, she succeeds in enchanting the guests with her food after she has overcome her initial fears.

When Amanda is about to make her way home, Tom tries to approach her again by sending her a ball gown in the elevator . When the elevator comes back the dress is gone and they meet on the dance floor of the department store restaurant, where they dance together and take off again from the floor.

background

  • The film has nothing to do with the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis . This was filmed with Jessica Biel under the title The rules of the game .
  • The cost of production was approximately $ 6,000,000, but box office income lagged far behind. The film brought in only about $ 4,256,000 in the USA and only € 107,000 in Germany.
  • In Germany the film was initially only available on VHS , but has only been available on DVD since 2007.
  • The film had the working titles Vanilla Fog and The Magic Hour .

Reviews

The Hamburger Abendblatt noted that the film was "an idyllic world that would fit into a 1950s sitcom" . Tarlov's directorial work is "light fare ". There is a lack of complex characters and storylines. There is a "bad chemistry" between the two main actors .

The Berliner Morgenpost understood the film as "an amusing plea for sensuality, an invitation to enjoyment in a rationalized world" , but criticized a "long outdated image of women" .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0145893/business
  2. ↑ http://www.mediabiz.de/film/firmen/programm/einfach-unwiderstehlich/51795
  3. ↑ cf. Bock, Jannika: Love according to a recipe . In: Hamburger Abendblatt, January 13, 2000 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  4. ↑ cf. Becker, Claudia: Brought to the boil . In: Berliner Morgenpost, January 13, 2000, No. 12, p. 2