Tortilla Soup

2001
PG-13
1h 42m

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

5.4K

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Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Peña, Tamara Mello, and Jacqueline Obradors in Tortilla Soup (2001)

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Comedy Drama Romance

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

5.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total

Videos7

Trailer 1:49

Tortilla Soup

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Tortilla Soup Scene: Great Food

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Tortilla Soup Scene: Great Food

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Tortilla Soup Scene: Baseball

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Tortilla Soup Featurette

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Tortilla Soup Scene: Breakin' Plates

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Tortilla Soup Scene: Eating With The Parents

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Trivia
The plot of this movie is a Hispanic version of Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), about an aging widower chef who raised three daughters alone, both being written by Ang Lee. Even the opening crisis, the restaurant previously run by the chef has ruined the main feature of a huge banquet and he is called in to save the day, is the same.

Goofs
At the end when Carmen is leaving the kitchen to serve her family, at first she has one plate without the lobster, then when she is leaving the kitchen, as she is turning the corner, she has the plate with a lobster. Then, coming out of the kitchen, the lobster has disappeared, then reappears again when she turns towards the tables.

Quotes
Carmen Naranjo: Do you know why we clink glasses before drinking?... It's so that all the five senses are involved. We touch the glass. We smell the drink. We see its color. We taste it. Hearing is the only sense that doesn't participate unless we create it.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Captain Corelli's Mandolin/American Outlaws/Tortilla Soup/The Curse of the Jade Scorpion/Ghosts of Mars (2001)

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Written by Bebel Gilberto, Richard Arling and Gerry Cameron
Performed by Bebel Gilberto

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Review

Featured review

7/10

A Remake of Eat Drink Man & Woman, both are excellent

This is an exact almost word for word copy of Eat Drink Man Woman, a 1994 Twainese production. Both movies are great, but Tortilla soup looses points for lack of originality.

Both movies offer sharp portrayals of their various cuisines, and your preference may be Mexican vs.Chinese, however if you can tolerate the fast pace Chinese dialog (subtitles), see the original first. I also preferred the scenery of the original (Eat Drink Man Woman), but perhaps that is because Taiwan is the orient and the architecture is spectacular.

Finally, both movies are well acted although the lifestyle portrayed in the story line may be somewhat more believable in the Southern California setting of Tortilla Soup.