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Released
2014 · FILM

Chef

A visionary chef battles his conservative restaurant owner and a scathing review, then turns viral outrage into a high‑stakes comeback by daring to reinvent the menu before the critic returns.

“Starting from scratch never tasted so good.”

Directed by
Jon Favreau, Jai James
Written by
Jon Favreau
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
114 min
AdventureComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Fubo

Synopsis

When Chef Carl Casper abruptly resigns from his position at a prestigious Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to sacrifice his creative vision for its domineering owner, he must navigate the uncertain path ahead.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 673+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robert LeightonShot by Kramer MorgenthauScored by Lyle WorkmanDesigned by Denise PizziniSound by Jonathan BorlandCostumes by Laura Jean ShannonVFX by Steve Wolf

Box Office

2014 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$50.4M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$50.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $31.4M — 62% of worldwide · International: $19.0M (38%)

Opening weekend: $205K — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $283K — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • Kiss the Cookde
  • Kiss the Cook - So schmeckt das Leben!de
  • Chef - La ricetta perfettait

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