La Cucina (film)

La Cucina is a 2007 romantic drama written by A. W. Gryphon. The film stars Christina Hendricks, Joaquim de Almeida, Leisha Hailey, amp Rachel Hunter. It was directed by first time directors Allison Hebble amp Zed B. Starkovich. The film was scored by Ian Ball from the band Gomez. Although Ball had contributed songs to other films such as the Academy Award winning film American Beauty, this was his first attempt at scoring an entire film.

La Cucina is a brief slice of life that is set in present day Los Angeles, on a hot summer evening in a West Hollywood apartment building. An intimate character study, it focuses oncouples and their very different relationships over food amp wine. A young writer, Lily Hendricks goes on an emotional rollercoaster with the much olderyears and sophisticated Michael Almeida. They navigate through a web of exploration on marriage, cheating, babies, and entrapment. In the kitchen above, the very pregnant Shelly Hailey is terrified that becoming a mother will drive away her husband and has turned for advice to her lesbian friend Jude Hunter, sure that this magnificent cook who has been in a longterm relationship has it all figured out. It is revealed that Shelly has her own secrets that fuel her fear and Judes relationship may not be exactly as it appears. They struggle throughfighting, laughing, crying, cooking amp eatingtrying to work out what really makes relationships work.

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