Chef's Special (2008)

Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) stars as Chef Maxi, a culinary genius/drama queen with too much on his plate.

Director:

Nacho G. Velilla

Writers:

Oriol Capel, David S. Olivas

Stars:

Javier Cámara, Lola Dueñas, Fernando Tejero

8 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Javier Cámara	...	Maxi
Lola Dueñas	...	Alex
Fernando Tejero	...	Ramiro
Benjamín Vicuña	...	Horacio
Chus Lampreave	...	Celia
Luis Varela	...	Jaime
Cristina Marcos	...	Marta
Alexandra Jiménez	...	Paula
Junio Valverde	...	Edu
Alejandra Lorenzo	...	Alba
Mariano Peña	...	Álvaro
Fernando Albizu	...	Valero
Carlos Leal	...	Pascal Sánchez
Alberto Jo Lee	...	Dae-Su
Jesús Fuente	...	Director del colegio

Storyline

Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) stars as Chef Maxi, a culinary genius/drama queen with too much on his plate.

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Plot Keywords:

girl wears eyeglasses | man wears eyeglasses | chef | homosexual | ugly duckling | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Fernando Fernán-Gómez was originally slated to play a role, but died before shooting began.

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Connections

Featured in Fuera de carta: Así se hizo (2008)

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Soundtracks

Súbete a este tren
Written by Juan Aguirre and Juanjo Javierre
Performed by Javier Cámara, Lola Dueñas and Fernando Tejero

User Reviews

A good family comedy including gay characters

I saw this film afraid of what I was going to see was going to be something like Chuecatown (a self indulgent comedy about gays just for a group of gays). But I found something much better suitable for broader audiences.

There are gay characters but the story show them as people with their good and their bad things. They are not idealistic perfect, nor the weeping victims of society, not evil, they're just persons. And that's a good staring point for the "normalization" of gay people also in movies.

Of course there are some stereotyped behaviors, either from gay or heterosexual characters, but fits very well in the play, and are not very far away from some real truths.

Most of gags work very well, the story is credible and having in mind that is a comedy for all family is a good entertainment. Maybe in some countries that prefer kids to watch violence than love scenes it can be somewhat slightly sexy, but here it is perfectly suitable for all family, as I think it should be.

A very good "Opera-Prima" for a director/writer of sitcoms in Spain TV channels.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Spain]

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

11 April 2008 (Spain)

Also Known As:

Chef's Special

Filming Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$8,997,644

Company Credits

Production Co:

Antena 3 Televisión, Canguro Produzioni Internazionali Cinematografiche, Ensueño Films

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1