Drama, Comedy, History, Family
Young Nigel Slater has big culinary aspirations, even though all his mother knows how to make is toast. When his mother dies, relations grow strained between Nigel and his father, especially when he remarries a woman who wins his heart with a lemon meringue pie. Nigel enters culinary school, starts working in a pub, and finds himself competing with his stepmother - both in the kitchen and for his father's attention.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Archaeology of a Woman
Evergreen
Wives - Ten Years After
Wives III
The Rum Diary
The Murder Farm
His Secret Life
American Virgin
The Blessing
Asfixia
Victoria, and the Pursuit of Happiness
A Single Life
Take Me
The Safety of Objects
The Man Who Loves
Pintakasi
Dear Evan Hansen
Coming Soon
Veronika Decides to Die
Moscow Zero
SIMILAR MOVIES
Archaeology of a Woman
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2014
A mother's dementia reignites a past of crime and lust, forcing her daughter to make difficult decisions.Evergreen
IMDB 3.3 | Jan , 2004
Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain acceptance.Wives - Ten Years After
IMDB 4.4 | Oct , 1985
Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwilling to call it a night after the party is over. Husbands and children must celebrate Christmas as best they can, while the women spend quality time drinking and taking stock of their lives.Wives III
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1996
This mellow comedy is the third entry in filmmaker Anja Breien's "Wives" series and stars the same three actresses who appeared in the first two. This episodic film begins with flashbacks to the 1975 film Wives and scenes from 1985's Wives: Ten Years Later. Now ten more years have passed and they are comfortably ensconced in middle age. They have gathered to hold a surprise birthday for Kaja aboard an Oslo streetcar. The three haven't seen each other in ages and much of the story focuses on their discussions of their disparate lives. Every word, smile and tear they share affirms the depth of their lasting friendship.The Rum Diary
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 2011
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.The Murder Farm
IMDB 5.1 | Nov , 2009
Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was born stirs up the feelings of guilt and personal ghosts of its inhabitants, haunted by dark memories related to a multiple murder that happened two years earlier at the Tannöd farm, a hideous crime that remains unsolved.His Secret Life
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2001
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.American Virgin
IMDB 4.9 | Oct , 2009
A Freshman College Girl on a scholarship from an abstinence group that advocates saving sex until marriage discovers that her antics on a night of debauchery, when she reluctantly got drunk for the first time in her life, were captured on camera by a sleazy video producer. Now she and her friends must travel across country to recover the incriminating footage.The Blessing
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 2009
Overwhelmed and extra-sensitive, Katrine has a hard time coping when her more relaxed boyfriend, Andreas, takes a business trip just days after the birth of their first child. The fussy baby has difficulty breastfeeding, and vulnerable, insecure Katrine feels like a failure. When Katrine’s emotionally withholding mother Lise consents to stay for a few days, the two quickly fall into what are clearly familiar dysfunctional behavior patterns.Asfixia
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
Marta and Ana break up, and shortly afterward, they get stuck in an elevator, forcing them to be honest with each other.Victoria, and the Pursuit of Happiness
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2006
Victoria is a beautiful, successful, upper middle class lawyer; but very unsatisfied with her private life. She is all consumed by her high pressure career and there is little time left to find love. It all changes when she meets Fat, a rap singer that becomes her client. Although at first Victoria has reservations because of her prejudices, she discovers in him a person that, unlike her, enjoys his life and follows his dreams. Through their relationship Victoria learns there is more to life than succeeding, there is also living. Perhaps love is meant to happen instead of being pursued.A Single Life
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2014
When Pia plays a mysterious vinyl record single, she suddenly knows how to travel through her own life.Take Me
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2014
A nurse working in a center for the disabled is confronted to his principles when he's asked to accomplish a particular task.The Safety of Objects
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2002
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.The Man Who Loves
IMDB 5.8 | Oct , 2008
A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.Pintakasi
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2011
About a young painter who arrives at an island made of garbage. He uses the island and its denizens as his canvas and fights to protect the island from forces that threaten it.Dear Evan Hansen
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.Coming Soon
IMDB 5.7 | Jun , 1999
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.Veronika Decides to Die
IMDB 5.9 | May , 2009
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.Moscow Zero
IMDB 3.2 | Nov , 2006
In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.