ThiefHott Too much of everything

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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.

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!

boblipton Over the past decade, comedies about chefs and cooks have become more common in the movies and the Hallmark Channel has created a few. In this one, we have another Hallmark romcom about a brittle, driven professional and a casual, inventive, uncertain genius -- but this time, it's the guy who's the brittle, unhappy professional and the gal who's casual and so forth.Well, hallelujah for that. Danielle Panabaker is awfully cute and able to project her vulnerability very well. Shawn Roberts offers a fine two-toned performance: control freak in the restaurant and barefoot in the country. Apparently no one bothered to talk with the script writer, because the dialogue makes reference to Miss Panabaker as being controlling.Well, occasionally, some subversion needs to go on to keep things fresh. Ron Oliver has gotten enough shots to make it visually clear that this takes place in San Francisco, the leads are good and the talking about food is intelligent. The result is more than good enough.

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).