Stella dreams of running her family's restaurant and marrying her long-term boyfriend, but when her life crumbles, she seizes the opportunity to become a chef in London. Will the city and a ... Read allStella dreams of running her family's restaurant and marrying her long-term boyfriend, but when her life crumbles, she seizes the opportunity to become a chef in London. Will the city and a persistent food critic transform her perspective?Stella dreams of running her family's restaurant and marrying her long-term boyfriend, but when her life crumbles, she seizes the opportunity to become a chef in London. Will the city and a persistent food critic transform her perspective?
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I love the london background and the tour around my coveted notting hill but please why cast actors who are clearly not into food or even passionate about it when u are literally casting a chef . Her hair is everywhere , she keeps this unified cuteness about her when everyone knows chefs are focused on ingredients and not a curling iron. The chemistry I blame on the lack of time between the love interests and I feel they could have utilized some of the lines to benefit a spectrum of colorful antic dots between the difference between American and London culture instead, they gave us beige, beige, beige dialogue and not enough silly funniness to make me want to comment better honestly I expected more. I love acting in Hallmark movies and I always try to change something to give myself a stamp on the show. Yet this one seemed run-of-the-mill bland. I wish that I was in the casting room when decisions were made.
The lead actress's adorable looks didn't help the acting. Or maybe it was the writing? I've not seen her in anything else to compare. I don't understand the purpose of dressing her and doing her hair as if she were a child. Well, I guess that it closely matches the way her character was written. I wondered the entire time it was on, if a different actress wouldn't have sounded so whiny and spoiled? Came the resounding conclusion, that it was 8% the bad writing and 92% the terrible acting. If this were real life, I would not want to be her friend.
It's very rare that I don't finish a movie, but I couldn't see the point in finishing this. I feel like the look on my face may have ended up there permanently had I watched the entire film.
The scenery was nice.
There was also zero chemistry between the two leads.
It's very rare that I don't finish a movie, but I couldn't see the point in finishing this. I feel like the look on my face may have ended up there permanently had I watched the entire film.
The scenery was nice.
There was also zero chemistry between the two leads.
I wanted to love this movie but lead actress kept getting in the way. She looked and acted like a 12 year old brat. Poor acting skills and I guess the writer shares in the poor role. A head chef is texting like a high schooler, cannot walk down the street without bumping into multiple ppl???
No, we had to turn it off which is too bad since her pen pal and leading man were good actors. Love the filming and scenery.
This plays like a bad Hallmark movie including the age differences between the male and female leads. It's gross.
Foote should have insisted she could be smart and romantic not just play a school girl on a movie.
No, we had to turn it off which is too bad since her pen pal and leading man were good actors. Love the filming and scenery.
This plays like a bad Hallmark movie including the age differences between the male and female leads. It's gross.
Foote should have insisted she could be smart and romantic not just play a school girl on a movie.
Nice story but I just couldn't get past the terrible fake American accent. The plot was the usual hallmark style - easy watching, kind of predictable but sweet. There was the requisite developing romance between 2 individuals who have no plans or desire to meet someone or fall in love. There was interesting sites & scenes around Notting Hill in London. All together there was potential for a good movie. But all of this gets lost behind that terrible fake accent.
In this day & age of globalism where viewers know what accents for different regions sound like, if you're characters are from a specific area, you should use actors that are either from that area or can actually pull off the accent. Not use an English actor who does a bad representation of being an extra from Grease.
In this day & age of globalism where viewers know what accents for different regions sound like, if you're characters are from a specific area, you should use actors that are either from that area or can actually pull off the accent. Not use an English actor who does a bad representation of being an extra from Grease.
Not a bad storyline, but way too many holes. Stella, played by a British actress, has a poor American accent. She's supposed to be from Montana, but I think they confused Montana with Kentucky or someplace green and with a southern accent. She has loads of free time, even in the evening when she's supposed to be working. I just found the whole production to be a bit ridiculous at times. Theo was charming, but the best part of the film were the scenes with Stella's friend Rebecca. The production is colorful and engaging. But I couldn't get past Stella's poor accent and the many holes in the storyline.
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