Simply Irresistible

Simply Irresistible (1999)

Magic opened up their hearts... Love did the rest.

After her mother's death, mediocre chef Amanda Shelton is having trouble attracting customers to her family's restaurant. While shopping for ingredients, she is given a magical crab by mysterious Gene O'Reilly. Afterward, Amanda's dishes suddenly become excellent, inducing strong emotional reactions in everyone who eats them. Tom Bartlett, who is preparing to open his own eatery, tries her cooking and falls in love.

Date of release
1999-02-05
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (271)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Mark Tarlov

Casting

Interesting facts

Simply Irresistible is a 1999 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Tarlov and was written by Judith Roberts, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Sean Patrick Flanery. The film was produced by Regency Enterprises and released by 20th Century Fox on February 5, 1999 to negative reviews from critics, and the film grossed $4.4 million against a $6 million budget.

Production

The original working title for the film was "Vanilla Fog" as mentioned by Sarah Michelle Gellar on The Tonight Show.

According to Mark Tarlov, the director, the conception of the film arose from "intersection of eating and drinking and romance [...] part of my interest with the movie was this idea of being able to bend reality. How food and wine actually bends time and space [...] the whole Einsteinian view of bending time and space based on your position relative to the events that are happening."

Tarlov's wife, Judith Roberts, wrote the screenplay based on a story co-developed by Roberts and Tarlov. According to Tarlov, "the script was about a middle-aged young woman [...] who had never found romance before because she never found her passion. And when she found her passion—which was cooking—romance followed."

Tarlov pitched the film to Holly Hunter, who he intended to play the lead role, but the studio did not want her to play the part. Sarah Jessica Parker was then wanted, but the studio felt she was too old for the part. The character was then rewritten to a 20-year-old woman with Sarah Michelle Gellar landing the role. The studio wanted to cash in on her success from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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