Burnt (2015)

Burnt (2015)

Comedy/Drama

Three years ago, successful chef Adam Jones worked in one of the premier restaurants in Paris. His drug problems and  diva-like behavior drove him over the edge, he takes down the restaurant along his friends careers. Adam disappears after the big failure in the business, he sobered up and sentenced himself to shucking one million oysters at a bar in New Orleans. Adam finishes shucking the millionth oyster and returns to London with a plan recapture his lost name and goes after his third Michelin star. Arrived to London, Adam starts looking up his old colleagues and friends, he visits his former mentor, Jean-Luc's master of hotel, Tony, who manages his father's hotel. Adam is downwright with him and offers that
he wants to take over the hotel's restaurant, but Tony doesn't trust him anymore since what happened in Paris. The next
one who Adam visits his friend Conti, who owns a restaurant now, he meets with Conti's sous-chef Helene, thought she doesn't like him back. Adam makes up with one of his friend's, Michel, who's career he almost destroyed by releasing rats in Michel's kitchen and reporting him to health inspector, which ended with closing his restaurant. Some days later Tony kicks Adam out of the hotel and help is given to him by chef on the rise, David, who agrees to work in Adam's  restaurant when he can crash in David's apartment. Adam makes contact with famous restaurant critic Simone Forth, who agrees to dine in Tony's hotel restaurant. Simone is impressed with Adam's food so much that Tony and his father accept the idea of renovating the hotel's kitchen and hire Adam as the head chef, though he has to take weekly drug tests with Tony's psychiatrist Dr. Rosshilde. Helene is fired by Conti and runs crying to Adam, who decides to help her. He offers Helene bigger salary and she accepts the job. Opening night at Langhams turns out to be a disaster and Adam becomes furious with everyone in the staff, including Helene. After embarassed in front her colleague and physical attack, Helen quits working for Adam. The next day Tony visits Helene to bring her back to The Langhams, explaining Adam's behavior and the home he comes from. Tony offers to double Helene's salary even more and she agrees to a comeback. Adam treats her with more respect than before when she comes back until they have a new reason to start fighting. When Helene's daughter Lily has a birthday and she can't take take a day off to celebrate it with her, Tony will gladly watch Lily. After a while Tony enters the kitchen, asking Adam to make a birthday cake, which he refuses at the beginning, but is forced to do it. He brings personally birthday cake to Lily and tries to connect with her, which improves his and Helene's relationship. Adam receives an invitation to the reopening to Reece's restaurant, Helene agrees to be his date. Adam is very much suprised when he sees Jean-Luc's daughter, Anne Marie there, who he used to date before things went bad for him. They talk for while and it turns out Anne Marie has gotten clean also. The next morning he wanders around and Helen finds him in the fish market, where Adam opens up to her and reveals how he started doing drugs. After having their first kiss in front of the restaurant, Adam is taken away by men to who he owns a drug money. Worried
Helene finds Adam beaten up outside the kitchen entrance. After the announcement that Michelin men are in the restaurant, Adam pulls himself together and starts to work himself up for the third Michelin star. When another plates are delivered  to the tables, some of them come back. Michel reveals he put too much pepper in the food, for having revenge on Adam for what happened in Paris. Adam leaves the kitchen and wanders around London, ending up at Reece's restaurant being drunk. He tries to kill himself with sous-vide bag when Reece rips the bag off from Adam's head. The next morning Adam wakes up at Reece's kitchen, telling him what happened about the third star. Reece compliments him, revealing he is a better chef and everyone needs him around. Adam discovers that Anne Marie payed off his debt for his drugs, she gives her papa's knives to Adam for making his dishes even more perfect. Truth is revealed by Tony about the Michelin men, turns out they were just software salesman from Birmingham. Adam changes his behavior and attitude in the kitchen. He listens to Helene more and even puts Max input and supports David more. He works together with other chefs to bring a great meal to every table and receive the third star. 
Produced by Stacey Sher, who produced crime-drama-mystery movie A Walk On The Tombstones in 2014.
Directed by John Wells, who directed drama movie August: Osage County in 2013.
Screenplay written by Steven Knight, who wrote screenplay for action-fantasy movie Seventh Son in 2014.

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio, Omar Sy, Sam Keeley, Henry Goodman, Matthew Rhys,
Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Alicia Vikander