January 1, 1999

Simply Irresistible (1999) *

Directed by Mark Talov. With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanagan and Dylan Baker. A singularly inappropriate title for a simply awful movie about a perky chef (Gellar) trying to seduce a department-store executive (Flanagan). She cooks him some tasty dishes, they both float around like balloons, he suspects her of being a nasty witch, and...you get the picture. Some ideas might have been stolen from "Like Water For Chocolate", but this film is terrible in its own inimitable way.