Tortilla Soup

Hector is so wonderful in this movie. The house is awesome....and the food......amazing. The daughters let us know what it is like to live with their father, the subtexts are great, and the entire movie ends spectacularily. What more could you... Full review

Excellent movie but how coincidential that all three daughters and the father are played by actors that have not a drop of Mexican blood. Hector Elizondo is Spaniard/Puerto Rican from NY, Elizabeth Pena is Cuban American from NJ, Tamara Mello is... Full review

Well, well, it's hard to describe this film. Sometimes you always feel good when you're watching a film. I don't know exactly the reason. I just know that in some occasions you fell not so good because of the events... Full review

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed this film. We had wanted to see this when it first came to video/DVD but didn't get to it. Frankly, I then forgot about it. Last week, I was reminded of the movie and... Full review

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,... Full review

there are 3 BEAUTIFUL spanish women in this movie... enough said!!!! but seriously, i had to watch this movie for a spanish class and for some reason the movie was able to rope me in i enjoyed it... Full review

This wasn't a bad movie, I guess, but it wasn't really all that great. The best part about it is whenever they have Sunday dinner. Oh, the food is so beautiful to look at. The acting is okay, but the story... Full review

This has a wonderful plot. The father of grown daughters suffers the generational clash and cultural clash of old vs. new. This is an hispanic (but English language)remake of the Chinese film "Eat Drink, Man, Women". Both show the writing... Full review

Better than the ordinary Hollywood movie, this family comedy does a very nice job of presenting a variety of characters in the throes of pursuing their own version of the American Dream. That the family is Mexican-American adds a welcome... Full review

I thoroughly got swept up in the story and the characters. It was wonderful seeing an adult movie without all the foul language that seems to overwhelm Hollywood at the moment. The acting was just perfect from everyone. I would... Full review

However, I now understand that it is like a movie with great art, or costumes, or scenery, or music. The actors all did an professional job of relating a simple story into a family epic of which any culture can relate. ... Full Review

My husband introduced me to this story and it's a great movie to cuddle up to with a main squeeze. The type of feel good movie that you enjoy watching over and over again. Great cast! Fortunately, the rest of the movie holds up as well. ... Full Review

The film is awash with good eats. That's the recipe for Tortilla Soup, a delicious little domestic romp about a patriarch with culinary passions and three less-than-darling daughters with amorous entanglements. ... Full Review

enjoy the film's modest virtues.....concerning its characters' failings.....Where Eat Drink Man Woman was honest about the rough edges and dicey elements in its characters' lives, Tortilla Soup wants too much to be a feel-good movie....There's also Yolanda's flirtatious mother (Raquel Welch), who certainly considers herself one of the likeable and attractive characters, and isn't..... ... Full Review

Ripoll deftly melds the comedy and pathos that drive Tortilla Soup into a story that is essentially about the strong bond of family and the clashes that can drive even the most tightly knit group apart. Youngest daughter Maribel is about to leave home for college that is, until she meets the beautiful, Brazilian Andy ( Nikolai Kinski ), who introduces her to the foreign concept of finding oneself. ... Full Review

I am not Mexican, but because my birthday is on "cuatro de Mayo,' Cinco de Mayo has always been a special holiday for me. Cinco de Mayo, May 5, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army... ... Full Article

In 1994, Ang Lee spun a wonderful tale called Eat, Drink, Man, Woman about a Taiwanese chef, who discovers he's losing his senses of taste and smell at the same time each of his three daughters announce they are leaving... ... Full Article

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-- Mick LaSalle 'TORTILLA SOUP' Starring Hector Elizondo, Elizabeth Pena. Directed by Maria Ripoll. (PG-13. 102 minutes. At the Lumiere.) When the eldest, least sexually spontaneous sister (Pena) experiences the liberation of smashing crockery on the kitchen floor, the film ... Full Article

n obligatory media blurb for Tortilla Soup could go: "take a taste of Tortilla Soup and loosen your inhibitions." Though the film does feature savory dishes and Raquel Welch as a hot-to-trot Latin abuela, fetishists will be sourly disappointed by... ... Full Article

The first time around, TORTILLA SOUP was Eat Drink Man Woman , Ang Lee's Chinese-language 1994 art-house hit. This American remake cribbed Eat Drink 's characters and storyline, but instead of focusing on a traditional Taiwanese family in Taipei, TORTILLA... ... Full Article