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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 30 August 2007

Aaron Eckhart as Nick and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Kate getting cooking

Restaurant’s dishy chef has Catherine heading for shrink

NO RESERVATIONS
Directed by Scott Hicks
Certificate PG

“WHY do you need therapy?” are the opening words from her psychiatrist as top chef Kate (Catherine Zeta-Jones) lies back on the couch for another session.
She shrugs hopelessly. “I haven’t the faintest idea.”
Well, let’s see why. For starters, World War III has broken out in the kitchens backstage at her five-star New York restaurant, and it’s all too much as tensions and tempers run riot.
So, nothing new there then.
Next, no-nonsense Kate crosses swords – actually knives and forks – with a cocky new chef (Aaron Eckhart) who makes everyone around him laugh, and obviously has his eye on the main chance.
When her introvert nine-year-old niece (Abigail Breslin, a child actress with a big future) comes to stay, things get even more out of hand. The newcomer knows how to upset her aunt by simply saying: “I’m not hungry!” after Kate has slaved in the kitchen for two hours.
So, along with fighting off her feelings for the new Lothario at the restaurant, it’s small wonder she feels in need of a shrink.
One word sums up this delicious treat of
a romantic comedy:
Yummy!

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