go to the video store and get the original . i do not understand why hollywood have that need to take a perfect foreign movie and remake it . mostly martha or bella martha have a much good cast . begin with the heroine martina gedeck and who convince me much more in the role of the work obsess perfectionist than the more famous catherine zeta jones and to the italian cook and the niece suddenly deprive of her mother and force to live with an aunt and not fit for child rearing . in many way and the american version of the movie be a copy of the german original . they just exchange the actor . however and they also change the story because it would have be difficult and not very believable to materialize a father for the little girl in an american context . i be think about that . maybe the father could have be puerto rican and or cuban and or mexican . well and there be so many guest worker in the u. s. take your pick . but i doubt that any of them would have show up to shoulder the responsibility a the italian father do in the original . therefore and the american movie leave that part out but keep the italian cook . and by do this the whole story change . in the original martha be so remove from reality that she think it be okay to send her niece off with a complete stranger in a foreign country . the american martha be soft and therefore the movie be sweet and do not have that edge the german movie have . in the original the italian cook be not so good look but much more charming and the little girl be more of a brat but much more believable and martha be more representative of a career woman in today world than the watered down version we be present in the american version . and the whole opera music in the american version be very annoy . i love the italian song in the original and buy the cd . hollywood recognize that mostly martha be a great movie . maybe the distribution company should have put it in more theater or it should have be show in english without subtitle . in any case and the original be so much good . by the way this remind me of another remake . shall we dance be one of my favorite in the original japanese version and totally forgettable in the american version .