Cooking with Stella ratings (Movie, 2009)
Rank | 79,015 / 234,050 |
---|---|
Trend | 2 |
Genres | Comedy, Drama |
Total votes | 328 |
Average rating | 5.3 / 10 |
Stella Elizabeth Matthews has been a cook in the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi for 30 years. She is brilliant as a cook, and brilliant at creatively padding her salary - with a few pilfered items, some minor overcharging, and a special phone-order duty free business. A newly posted Canadian diplomatic couple Michael and Maya arrive with their baby and, after an initial jolt when she learns that Michael will be staying home as "diplomatic housewife" while Maya goes off to work, everything goes swimmingly for Stella. Michael was a chef in Ottawa and he is longing to learn authentic Indian cooking. Stella agrees to be his "cooking guru". But Stella's cozy domestic set-up implodes when Tannu, an honest nanny, joins the household, and threatens to expose Stella's deceptions. Eventually Stella wins Tannu's full cooperation (and then some!). This unlikely partnership embarks on a much grander, riskier scam, which seems to bring disaster. An unexpected kind of justice is found, but ...
Directors: Dilip Mehta Writers: Deepa Mehta, Dilip Mehta History (tracking since March 7, 2020) Note: amount of total votes may decrease due to periodic removal of fraudulent ones. Related MoviesTotal votes: 532,747
Average rating: 6.5 Hancock
Total votes: 510,322
Average rating: 6.4 Friends with Benefits
Total votes: 393,417
Average rating: 6.5 Night at the Museum
Total votes: 375,889
Average rating: 6.5 Due Date
Total votes: 357,330
Average rating: 6.5 Click
Total votes: 355,399
Average rating: 6.4 The Dictator
Total votes: 333,443
Average rating: 6.4 Mamma Mia!
Total votes: 272,859
Average rating: 6.5 Just Go with It
Total votes: 264,391
Average rating: 6.4 Dark Shadows
Total votes: 279,884
Average rating: 6.2