Brownies

Brownies is a 2004 Indonesian film directed by Hanung Bramantyo. It is about a career woman who falls for an entrepreneur over their mutual love of brownies. Plot Mel (Marcella Zalianty) is a young creative director at an advertising agency who is engaged to Joe (Philip Jusuf). However, she catches him having sex with another woman and breaks off their relationship. This devastates Mel, who becomes incapable of bearing the sight of him and destroys their pictures together. For revenge she begins flirting with numerous men. However, her best friend Didi (Elmayana Sabrena) convinces her to not become like Joe. Didi takes her to a local café, where Are (Bucek Depp), an aspiring novelist, loans books and serves brownies. Although Mel loves eating the chocolate confections, she cannot cook them well; Are, meanwhile, cooks delicious brownies but has not them since his mother died. The two spend time together and eventually begin falling in love, despite their class differences: Are was once a street child, while Mel has been raised wealthy. They are able to reconcile these differences, and Are gives Mel hints on cooking brownies. However, Mel continues to have feelings for Joe and, when he invites her to dinner, does not come to Are's birthday; she is later disappointed when Joe reveals that he had intended a business dinner. Not long after Are has finished writing his novel – with Mel as his publicist – Joe says he is willing to break off his relationship with his new fiancée Astrid (Luna Maya) and return to Mel, if Mel can help him break up with her.