British movie from a woman director about the bonding of three women when they open a pastry shop in Notting Hill which had been the planned project of dead Sarah. It's Lifetime movie posing as a feature film, devoid of any depth. A couple of subplots are thrown in but the director never scratches the surface of these women. Celia Imrie plays the well-to-do mother of Sarah. Imrie seems to have owned a circus but we never learn much of anything. The granddaughter (Shannon Tarbet) is a dancer. We know this because we see her strike a few poses in a dance class. Sarah's friend (Shelley Conn) is some sort of business executive who used to bake. Aside from this stirring stories, we get lost of close-ups of pies.
To add zest to the story (if not the pies) we get Bill Paterson as a neighboring inventor who sparks Imrie and Rupert Penry-Jones as an "old friend" of Sarah who may also be the granddaughter's father. He's not, so that subplot goes nowhere.
After the pie hole fails, we're told that London is the most multi-cultural city in the world, so the gals go out and get recipes for "foreign" food and all the immigrants (in Notting Hill) come flying to buy the goodies. Again, lots of close-ups of pastries but no information at all. In the end, it would have been more exciting to watch the dough rise for a Norwegian julekaka.
To add zest to the story (if not the pies) we get Bill Paterson as a neighboring inventor who sparks Imrie and Rupert Penry-Jones as an "old friend" of Sarah who may also be the granddaughter's father. He's not, so that subplot goes nowhere.
After the pie hole fails, we're told that London is the most multi-cultural city in the world, so the gals go out and get recipes for "foreign" food and all the immigrants (in Notting Hill) come flying to buy the goodies. Again, lots of close-ups of pastries but no information at all. In the end, it would have been more exciting to watch the dough rise for a Norwegian julekaka.