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Pommes essen (2012)

85 min · Family Comedy

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Directors

Tina von Traben

Cast

Luise Risch, Marlene Risch, Tabea Willemsen, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Smudo, Thekla Carola Wied, Jan Erik Madsen

Patty dreams of becoming a star chef while helping keep her mother’s struggling fries stand running.

The story

Patty wants to become a star chef, but repeatedly helps at her mother Frieda’s poorly performing fries stand, which serves a legendary currywurst sauce. When Frieda collapses from overwork and goes away for a health retreat, Patty has to keep the family business running with her younger sisters, Selma and Lilo. Then an opportunity arises for Patty to intern with a Michelin-starred chef, and the work falls to her sisters.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

Patty wants to become a star chef, but she keeps having to help out at her mother’s fries stand. Business is poor, even though her mother, Frieda, inherited a legendary currywurst sauce recipe from her father, Grandpa Frey. When Frieda collapses from overwork and goes away for a health retreat, Patty has to keep the family business running with her younger sisters, Selma and Lilo. But when an opportunity comes up for her to do an internship with a Michelin-starred chef, the work falls to her sisters, who accidentally set the fries stand on fire. To save the family business, the sisters enter a competition run by MSV Duisburg, which is looking for a new operator for its stadium catering. Frieda’s brother, Uncle Walther, also enters the competition. He runs a chain of fries stands in the Ruhr region, but does not know his father’s secret recipe. Outside the MSV stadium, shortly before the next home game, the fans vote between Walther’s Pommes King and the Frey sisters’ stand.

Genres

Family Comedy

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