2002
PG
Paramount Classics
1 h 49 m

2002
PG
Paramount Classics
1 h 49 m

Summary Martha (Gedeck) is a head chef for an upscale restaurant who relies on her culinary skill as her primary means of communication. When her sister dies in a car accident, her orderly world falls apart as she has to care for her eight-year-old niece, a girl who proves as resolute and single-minded as her aunt. (Paramount Classics)

Directed By: Sandra Nettelbeck

Written By: Sandra Nettelbeck

2002
PG
Paramount Classics
1 h 49 m

2002
PG
Paramount Classics
1 h 49 m

Mostly Martha

Name: Mostly Martha
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 2002-08-16
Duration: 1 min 49 s
Rating: 72
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto, August Zirner, Ulrich Thomsen

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 6 User Ratings

4.7

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Directed By: Sandra Nettelbeck

Written By: Sandra Nettelbeck

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Generally Favorable Based on 28 Critic Reviews

79% Positive
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21% Mixed
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Chicago Reader

This is better than good, it's wonderful: if facial expressions can be compared to colors, Gedeck works with an unusually broad palette, constantly surprising us, and she helps her costars shine.

By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Nettelbeck has created a movie recipe that ladles great dollops of dessertlike joy and equally dark tragedy around her strong-willed heroine. It wouldn't work without actors capable of finding vulnerability, humanity and kindness in sometimes inaccessible characters.

By Paula Nechak FULL REVIEW

Slate

The German reserve and Italian extroversion are in just the right balance. The movie exists on a tantalizing border -- and I don't mean Switzerland.

By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

Charlotte Observer

If you liked "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," you're on safe ground here -- Next time, I'd like to see Gedeck serve up a hearty meal instead of a tasty but unfilling appetizer.

By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

It is, in short, a compendium of clichés, yet with a presentation that makes the familiar seem remarkably warm and fresh.

By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

TV Guide Magazine

The plot unfolds exactly as you expect, but Gedeck imbues Martha with a remarkably subtlety of spirit.

By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

It's a drag how Nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding; there's a puritan, even punitive, cast to the way she sees her character, whose pathology she digs at with the tenacity of a truffle hound.

By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ARTE, Bavaria Film, Palomar, Pandora Filmproduktion, Prisma Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Rai Cinema, SRG - SSR, Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), Starhaus Filmproduktion, Südwestrundfunk (SWR), T&C Film AG, Teleclub AG, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Release Date Aug 16, 2002

Duration 1 h 49 m

Rating PG

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Tagline In Martha's enchanted kitchen, more than the food is starting to simmer. With some special ingredients they just might discover a recipe for passion.

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Awards

Mons International Festival of Love Films

• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations

Festival del Cinema Europeo

• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

Muscat International Film Festival

• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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Martina Gedeck

Martha Klein

Maxime Foerste

Lina Klein

Sergio Castellitto

Mario

August Zirner

Martha's Therapist

Ulrich Thomsen

Sam Thalberg

Sibylle Canonica

Frida

Katja Studt

Lea

Idil Üner

Bernadette

Oliver Broumis

Jan

Antonio Wannek

Carlos

Gerhard Garbers

Herr Steinberg

Angela Schmidt

Frau Steinberg

Diego Ribon

Giuseppe Lorenzo

Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

Lauter Gast

Victoria Trauttmansdorff

Begleiterin

Jerome Ducornau

Jean

Adrian Stein

Küchenjunge

Rocco Dressel

Bartender

Leonhard Mazohl

Kellner

Dietrich Adam

Arzt

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