Tortilla Soup

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Summary: Pleasantly entertaining family comedy!
Review: Pleasantly entertaining family comedy! Very natural actor Hector Elizondo gives one his signature performance.

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Summary: Great on so many levels
Review: This is a fun movie. The story is great, looking at a typical Latin family. The music is great, and finally the food is great. Another great food movie.

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Summary: I made me want tortilla soup!
Review: Torilla Soup. I love this movie. It's a family movie. Here we have 3 daughters living with their father. Each daughter with a different ideal, but all share the love for each other and the love for their father. The oldest is a school teacher, the middle is a in the verge of movin' to Barcelona and the youngest is about to start college in the fall, or so her father thought. The father played by Hector Elizondo is a chef. They, like many hispanic families, revolve their lives around dinner table, because that is there time to be together. My words really cannot explain the movie. You have to watch it. I'm telling you, I love this movie!

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Summary: Cute, Entertaining and Lovable
Review: Raquel is fabulous - she is so funny!!
Hector is a skilled actor.
The three sisters are beautiful, lovable and each has a story that will capture and warm your heart.
Yeah, possibly this is a chick flick...but my husband has watched it five times and seems to love it even more than I do!!

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Summary: Makes you want to watch from the kitchen.
Review: Sometimes a movie comes along that you just fall in love with. This is such a movie for me. The food preparations caught my attention being a huge foodie. The storyline caught my heart. Touching, romantic, funny, lighthearted but satisfying fare. I have to watch it every time it comes on tv as well as owning the dvd. A real feel good movie.

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Summary: Delicious!
Review: This is my favorite movie. The food itself is so tantalizing with the presentation & color. The music adds to the excitement, and the characters and the actors/actresses that play them do such a good job! I can watch this movie over and over and still see new details I didn't catch before.

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Summary: enjoyable food movie
Review: This is the Mexican version of "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman", which was CHinese. Both are about a chef and his three daughters. For anyone who likes to cook, the cooking scenes are great fun. Both are funny and the end has a great unexpected twist.

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Summary: You can almost smell the food cooking....
Review: This movie, a re-do of the Chinese movie "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman" is an excellent watch for people who love to cook. The cooking scenes are worth the whole movie. A friend and I watched it three times just for the food scenes. It is a bittersweet portrayal of a family....a family that in reality is like most families. Its a good family movie...a good movie for all ages. AND WOW...the FOOD!!

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Summary: Spanish rip off of a great Tawainese film!!
Review: This movie is almost word for word the same film as Ang Lee's 1994, "EAT, DRINK, MAN, WOMAN." In fact, the same lines, the same characters, the same layout of the house. It's the exact same movie -- well, almost except "EAT, DRINK, MAN, WOMAN" was a much better film, as well it should be as it's the original. I'm shocked Hollywood would stoop so low. The only difference is the cast is Spanish rather than Chinese. If you've seen Lee's film, you know everything that happens in "Tortilla Soup." I love all these actors and they're absolutely wonderful, but what a waste of time and talent. ...

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Summary: don't see this on an empty stomach
Review: Character actor Hector Elizondo heads this story about a Hispanic family of four (widowed father and his three grown daughters) and the troubles of daily life that causes them to grow apart and then ties them together in the end. Elizondo's character is a master chef worried that he has lost his touch after the death of his wife and, as such, much of the movie revolves around him cooking. The scenery is great and the visions of the food are wonderful. The movie does drag at times but is definitely watchable (if you aren't already hungry you will be before it is over.