--- product_id: 49159109 title: "Chef" price: "AED 25" currency: AED in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49159109-chef store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # Chef **Price:** AED 25 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Chef - **How much does it cost?** AED 25 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/49159109-chef) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Jon Favreau directs, writes and co-produces this movie in which he also stars alongside John Leguizamo, Scarlett Johansson, Sofía Vergara, Robert Downey Jr and Dustin Hoffman. Restaurant owner Riva (Hoffman) refuses to let his chef Carl Casper (Favreau)'s creative juices flow, giving him an ultimatum - either cook the dishes on the menu or leave. Although Carl sticks to the menu, bad reviews criticising his lack of creativity result in a Twitter war and he loses his job. With the help of his friend Martin (Leguizamo), ex-wife Inez (Vergara) and son Percy (Emjay Anthony), Carl opens up a food truck and tours the country with his culinary delights, rediscovering his passion for cooking along the way. The cast also includes Oliver Platt, Bobby Cannavale and Amy Sedaris. Review: Brilliant!!! - 'Chef' is one of those movies... A totally unexpected gem that I now clutch right up there with 'It's A Wonderful Life', 'both versions of 'Miracle On 34th Street', 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' and 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'. You cannot help watch this film and not feel good about yourself, your friends and the world when you come out the other side. Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo and young Emjay Anthony are a brilliant mix. Buy this movie - you will not be disappointed. Review: Superb touching comedy. - Where do you start with a movie this good? I already like Jon Favreau's direction (Iron Man 1 & 2) and knew he had a comic touch. This is his comic masterpiece. Favreau plays Chef Carl Casper, a talented chef, whose life is in a mess. Bullied into bland commercial cooking by Dustin Hoffman's money-mad restaurant owner, divorced from the woman he loves. Even worse, he on the outs with his young son because his frenetic lifestyle does not give him the time to be with him. Favreau has always had a gift for the smart funny retort and here they come thick and fast. But what raises this movie above the ordinary is that Favreau plays Casper as a man passionate about food. In those scenes where Casper is talking food, or preparing food, he becomes heroic and you really do feel his passion. And it is not a one-man show. John Leguizamo, as Casper's loyal assistant chef, almost steals the movie. He has a couple of lines that made me roar with laughter. Sofia Vergara is very good here as the ex-wife, her scenes are pivotal and move the action forward. Emjay Anthony plays his young son (9/10 years old?) with just the right amount of grit, to stop the movie getting sappy. Throw in a Robert Downey Jnr cameo with RDJ doing weird dude, as only RDJ can and you have a whole lot of good players acting their heads off. Colourful, fast-moving and with pin-sharp direction and acting, Chef is funny, touching and lively. It runs at just under two hours. I would have watched it if was over 4. Utterly superb. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Contributor | Amy Sedaris, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Jon Favreau, Karen Gilchrist, Kramer Morgenthau, Oliver Platt, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sergei Bespalov, Sofía Vergara Contributor Amy Sedaris, Bobby Cannavale, Dustin Hoffman, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo, Jon Favreau, Karen Gilchrist, Kramer Morgenthau, Oliver Platt, Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Sergei Bespalov, Sofía Vergara See more | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,718 Reviews | | Format | PAL | | Genre | comedy | | Global Trade Identification Number | 05055761903331 | | Language | English | | Manufacturer | Lions Gate Home Entertainment UK Ltd | | Number of discs | 1 | | Runtime | 1 hour and 54 minutes | ## Product Details - **Format:** PAL - **Genre:** comedy - **Language:** English - **Runtime:** 1 hour and 54 minutes ## Images ![Chef - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91b2k92YqOL.jpg) ![Chef - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91lYPVewBWL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant!!! *by G***. on 30 November 2024* 'Chef' is one of those movies... A totally unexpected gem that I now clutch right up there with 'It's A Wonderful Life', 'both versions of 'Miracle On 34th Street', 'Mr Smith Goes to Washington' and 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'. You cannot help watch this film and not feel good about yourself, your friends and the world when you come out the other side. Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo and young Emjay Anthony are a brilliant mix. Buy this movie - you will not be disappointed. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb touching comedy. *by J***K on 17 June 2018* Where do you start with a movie this good? I already like Jon Favreau's direction (Iron Man 1 & 2) and knew he had a comic touch. This is his comic masterpiece. Favreau plays Chef Carl Casper, a talented chef, whose life is in a mess. Bullied into bland commercial cooking by Dustin Hoffman's money-mad restaurant owner, divorced from the woman he loves. Even worse, he on the outs with his young son because his frenetic lifestyle does not give him the time to be with him. Favreau has always had a gift for the smart funny retort and here they come thick and fast. But what raises this movie above the ordinary is that Favreau plays Casper as a man passionate about food. In those scenes where Casper is talking food, or preparing food, he becomes heroic and you really do feel his passion. And it is not a one-man show. John Leguizamo, as Casper's loyal assistant chef, almost steals the movie. He has a couple of lines that made me roar with laughter. Sofia Vergara is very good here as the ex-wife, her scenes are pivotal and move the action forward. Emjay Anthony plays his young son (9/10 years old?) with just the right amount of grit, to stop the movie getting sappy. Throw in a Robert Downey Jnr cameo with RDJ doing weird dude, as only RDJ can and you have a whole lot of good players acting their heads off. Colourful, fast-moving and with pin-sharp direction and acting, Chef is funny, touching and lively. It runs at just under two hours. I would have watched it if was over 4. Utterly superb. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tempting calories *by A***D on 18 December 2014* This is a real charmer - good all round entertainment which sometimes (as did this film) attracts only grudging approval from professional critics but ordinary viewers can relax and thoroughly enjoy. I enjoyed it so much in the cinema that I went back for a guilty second helping before the end of the run. When the DVD came out I didn't hesitate, and it doesn't disappoint on renewed viewing. The story, by the Director Jon Favreau, is essentially about how a chef blows his career in an upmarket restaurant only to regain his vocation by taking on a food truck, bonding with his young son on the way. Though Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Downey Jr. and Bobby Cannavale are given significant billing, their parts are not much more than cameos which help to set the story in motion, and they are over by midway through. After that it is really sustained by the quartet of Jon Favreau himself, Sofia Vergara as his estranged wife, Emjay Anthony as their son and the irrepressible John Leguizamo who joins the truck from the restaurant to return to his Latino roots, another theme of the story. There are lots of shots of food preparation but it also conveys the sheer hard graft of working in catering, whether in a restaurant or fast food. Excellent value. I think I even almost understand twitter (in which son has to tutor father). 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