Scintille sopra Brooklyn

My wife and I were looking for a light, entertaining movie after Saturday night dinner with wine and found this one, streaming on Peacock. It is NOT a Hallmark movie, in fact it is a Canadian movie set in Brooklyn but shot in Canada, but it follows the Hallmark formula very closely.

Two single strangers meet quite by happenchance, they immediately repel each other, then they start to take a liking to each other, then a big issue comes up to split them apart, then followed by new choices and what my wife and I call "the hallmark kiss" comes during the very last minute of the movie. Yep, that's how you do it!

Lidia is a traditional chef running the small family Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. The recipes and menu are hold overs from past years, the food is superb but dining traffic has dropped off. Lidia is concerned about keeping it afloat.

In an evening out with her good friend they happen upon Daniel at his restaurant. It is futuristic place with a barely edible, eclectic menu of experimental foods. Lidia brushes him off but Daniel is persistent. He wants to partner with Lidia, he wants to modernize her restaurant, all the things she does not want.

If things stayed that way then there wouldn't be a movie. They gradually meet in the middle and each has to make hard choices about the joint endeavor.

The actors are attractive, the story is plausible, we found the movie to be suitably entertaining.