Mostly Martha 2002

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NETFLIX Rating : 3.7

IMDB Rating : 7.3

FD Smart Rating : 7.4

Synopsis : An uptight professional chef finds her world turned upside down when she takes in her newly orphaned niece and tries her hand at parenting.

Regions Available ( 1 ) :
Japan

Actors:

Idil Uner , Maxime Foerste , Martina Gedeck , Antonio Wannek , Ulrich Thomsen , Oliver Broumis , Sibylle Canonica , Katja Studt

Creators:

Sandra Nettelbeck

Genres:

Comedy, Romance, Drama

Release Date:

2002

Run Time:

1h46m

Maturity Rating:

thematic material and mild language

In a German restaurant, Chef Martha Klein is the undisputed supreme ruler of the kitchen staff and woe to any customer who would dare criticize her cooking. Her life is firmly centered around cooking which takes on a obsessive level with stubborn single mindedness. Even when she is ordered to take therapy, she still constantly talks about her work and the iron clad control she relishes in her task. All that changes when her sister dies in a car accident, leaving her 8 year old daughter, Lina. Martha takes her niece in and while making enquiries for her estranged father, she struggles to care for this stubbornly headstrong child. Meanwhile at work, a new chef named Mario is hired on and Martha feels threatened by this unorthodox intruder. The pressures of both her private and work life combine to create a situation that will fundamentally call her attitudes and life choices into question while these interlopers into her life begin to profoundly change it.