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Summary: As irresistible as margaritas, guacamole, y salsa
Review: A multigenerational tale of a widowed Latino father trying to hold his family of 3 fractious daughters together with the bond of carefully prepared meals. The food preparation scenes will keep you spellbound and can be appreciated on many levels: cooking lesson (really!), act of love, devotion, offering of sacrifice, parental love from a man who has a hard time saying I Love You. His daughters, a repressed Catholic, a liberated high schooler, and a 'modern woman,' just won't conform to his standards of proper Latinas. Then Raquel Welch, a nosy, in-your-face widow comes on the scene, and the fireworks begin.
But there's the food. Always the food, beginning, middle, and end.
Don't miss it.
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Summary: Yummy!
Review: Yes, Ang Lee's classic inspired it. So what. Sure, may be it lacks the panache of its precursor. All said and done, Tortilla Soup is still a fabulous feast of cooking, food, love, values. Set in some Mexican part of LA, this is a movie about, of course, food. But just bubbling under the comic surface are half a dozen more sombre themes involving how food brings us together and how it changes in tune with culture, sibling rivalry, personal freedom, ambition etc etc. Yet, the execution is thankfully sunny and quick so it never gets ho-hum. If nothing else, I bet it'll make you crave for some Mexican food. Highly recommend taking a sip of this one.
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Summary: A beautiful movie
Review: Tortilla Soup is an amazing movie filled with not only hilarious scenes, but brilliant acting and real and down to earth characters. Hector Elizondo gives a brilliant performance as the father, Martin in the movie, Constance Marie is amazing as Yolanda as well as Raquel Welch as the overbearing mother of Yolanda. Their are also great supporting performances from Elizabeth Pena as the middle child Leticia, Jaqueline Obradors as the oldest Carmen, Tamara Mello as the youngest Maribel and Paul Rodriguez as a baseball coach and the object of Leticia's affection. This is a beautiful movie about family, losing the ones we love, having to deal with living a life of your own, love, heartbreak, everything that we deal with in our everyday lives. This movie made me laugh and cry and it is just another example of amazing acting by brilliant Latino and Latina actors and actresses.
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Summary: Tasty Hors D'oeuvres But Not a Feast
Review: The quality of the acting in this film is superior to the material. Given the number of situation comedies on television which have come and gone during the past 20 years, it has become increasingly more difficult to produce an original film which involves a single parent struggling to raise several children. Ably directed by Maria Ripoll, Tortilla Soup focuses on Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo), a renowned chef who is slowly losing his senses of taste and smell as well as control of the lives of three daughters: schoolteacher Letitia (Elizabeth Pena), management consultant Carmen (Jacqueline Obradors), and teenager Maribel (Tamara Mello). This is a "cute," at times endearing film and I enjoyed it. Raquel Welch's performance as Hortentia, mother of another single parent and herself on the prowl for a new husband, brings energy as well as humor to her role. I was soon intrigued by the differences between and among the three daughters. They create all manner of opportunities for plot and character developments which, alas, the screenplay fails to provide. Various loose ends are all tied up pleasantly but too neatly by the film's conclusion. My rating acknowledges both the high quality of the acting and the predictability of the plot in which various characters are involved.
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Summary: Delicious
Review: This was a delightful movie--- a family story, a food story, a comedy, and some unexpected romances. In turn funny and poignant, this was meant to entertain and it did! It was wonderful seeing Hector Elizonda in a leading role as Martin, a former chef who has lost his senses of taste and smell. He is a wonderful actor, and the three actresses who played his daughters who still live at home did a good job too. Raquel Welsh was a bit "out there" but was not on the screen that much. Martin prepares incredibly elaborate meals...but now just for his daughters and an occasional guest. He is old-fashioned and very proud and thinks he is still taking care of his grown daughters....except that they think they are taking care of him! Despite his efforts to control the lives of those under his roof, each of the girls has her own ideas about the future. The food scenes are beautifully filmed and leave the viewers' mouths watering. Each meal looks more scrumptious than the last! All in all, a feel-good movie that did a good job of entertaining.
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Summary: Tortilla Soup - Hector Elizondo
Review: This DVD is the greatest! It has the whole enchalada! (sp?) I sent this DVD's to my daughters, friends and family - I love it so much! Such a Wonderful, real-life movie, so down-to-earth, it is funny, sad, enjoyable, just plain wonderful!
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Summary: What an absolute delight!
Review: Anyone who labels this a "rip-off" or a "straight copy" lacks the common sense to discern the difference between plagarism and a delicious remake. "Eat Drink Man Woman" is a great film, and "Tortilla Soup" is a wonderful homage to that work. Personally, I'm so glad to see Hector Elizondo in a leading-man role; he's fabulous in this film. And there's not a single weak link in the cast. AND.. if you are at ALL a 'foodie'... you owe it to yourself to add this flick to your library. Gads, the knife technique alone is worth it. It's close-up food porn! I heartily endorse this movie.
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Summary: Hold on
Review: I have read a few reviews that say this movie is a ripof of Ang Lee's
"Eat Drink Man Woman" there is a good reason for that.... Ang lee helped write this movie. Watch the opening credits, you will see his name. So to those who say its a ripoff its not.
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Summary: Straight Rip Off
Review: As a Mexican-American woman living in the United States, I am glad to see Latins finally being represented on the big screen in a positive way. But the really depressing thing about this movie was the complete rip of of Ang Lee's (brilliant filmaker)masterpiece Eat Drink Man Woman. Come on! Can't we do better than that?
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Summary: Is originality really so scarce in Hollywood?
Review: I saw this movie earlier this year. It struck me as simply a Latino version of "Eat Drink Man Woman". While immitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, it's really painful to watch. The story itself is fine, but the straight copying is nauseating. Why???
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