Recipe for Love

2014
6.4| 1h21m| G| en| More Info
Released: 11 October 2014 Released
Producted By: Lighthouse Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.hallmarkdrama.com/recipe-for-love
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Lauren Hennessey has always loved to cook and is a proud perfectionist at her job at "Food & Entertainment Magazine's" test kitchen while she dreams of being able to finally afford culinary school in Paris. When her boss offers her a bonus if she agrees to ghostwrite the cookbook of a difficult celebrity chef, Lauren sees her dream becoming a reality as soon as she can tame the notorious bad boy chef in question, Dexter Durant. Slowly peeling back the layers of Dexter's tough-guy persona, she starts seeing a different, vulnerable side to this big-shot chef. Suddenly, their dueling culinary styles become the perfect complement in the kitchen and an attraction between them starts to boil over.

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SnoopyStyle Lauren Hennesey (Danielle Panabaker) has been critiquing food since she was a girl writing about her school cafeteria. She takes a job ghost writing for demanding San Francisco TV chef Dexter Durant (Shawn Roberts) to pay for her French cooking school. He refuses to put his recipes in a cookbook and initially, the two of them clash.This is a functional Hallmark romance. They even have the Ghost scene. The two leads are photogenic. It has nothing special. It's not bigger than one expects and it follows the standard formula. The movie does need a bigger love competitor. That is the one failure in following the formula. Mostly, it won't excel beyond the countless other TV romances.
musicmarshalls This movie about professional Chefs seemed fun and well researched until an entire scene about an Italian appetizer, bruschetta, became the buzz word and theme for our opposite attract chefs. In Italian words written with "ch" are pronounced "k" not "sh". Certainly, we would expect these Chefs to know how to pronounce this popular appetizer, but they don't and I am immediately bounced out of the movie and our suspended belief. No jumping back in again. Hope someone got fired for that huge mistake!
huggibear What a way to turn someone's life around! This was a very good movie with some smart script. And the cutie actress (Danielle Panabaker) did an excellent job on her part. This is not a typical Hallmark movie, but Hallmark Movies & Mysteries (HMM) happens to play slightly better movies. It's not included with the Hallmark channel's package on DirecTV, so you have to pay extra to get HMM. This movie is worth watching! Enjoy it!
greerg2004 I really enjoyed this movie. The chemistry between the two leads was amazing. I loved the development of the romance due to a common interest. I find that many of the Hallmark romantic movies have characters back stories and story lines that are too unrealistic and contrived (falling in love in days, not seeing the obvious situations in front of them, the overacting, the unbelievable dialogue, etc.) This movie was not like that at all, which was refreshing. I felt invested with the characters; which kept me rooting for them, not only for their romance but also for their career success (which is what a movie is supposed to do).