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Bakery in Brooklyn

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Perfect for a wet afternoon but not all its cooked up to be!  A Spanish/US co-production, it concerns to orphaned cousins who inherit a debt-laden bakery in Brooklyn and want to save it from the claws of the bank. bakery5 But the two are competitive and fight from the word go, which is not great.  However as we speed on to an eventual happy ending, one (Aimee Teegarden) falls in love with the banker who is supposed to do the foreclosure (Ward Horton, typical US blond hunk),bakery2 the other, Chloe (a more interesting Krysta Rodriguez) falls for her boss, a telegenic Spanish TV chef (Aitor Luna)bakery4 who hasn’t got a clue about cooking.  A subplot about a designer (Blanca Suarez)bakery3 who is doing up a house for an old suspicious couple bakery6and is being followed around by the lovelorn Ian, a cousin of the protagonists seems to have little point as does Uncle Dave and his readings of Dostoiyevsky with a real Russian immigrant. So, it all smacks of magic reality and has plot holes galore but the camerawork is good even if Gustavo Ron’s script creaks somewhat.  It has some nice humour and goodwill too but only if you have nothing better to watch.

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