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Tortilla Soup (2001)

Hector Elizondo , Jacqueline Obradors , Maria Ripoll  |  PG-13 |  DVD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (122 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Judy Herrera, Nikolai Kinski
  • Directors: Maria Ripoll
  • Writers: Ang Lee, Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Ramón Menéndez, Tom Musca
  • Producers: John Bard Manulis
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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    Some Region 1 DVDs may contain Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE). Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click .
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: January 15, 2002
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (122 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005TNEQ
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,461 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Tortilla Soup" on IMDb

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The tantalizing genre of food films--stretching from Babette's Feast to Big Night and beyond--has a delicious new addition, Tortilla Soup. The food-preparation scenes will make your mouth water. Fortunately, the rest of the movie holds up as well. Hector Elizondo plays Martin, a widowed chef who is losing both his sense of taste and control over his three daughters: Leticia (the always superb Elizabeth Peña), a religious schoolteacher; Carmen (Jacqueline Obradors), a successful but unhappy businesswoman still carrying on an affair with her ex-boyfriend; and Maribel (Tamara Mello), a rebellious teen falling in love with a young Brazilian. When a pushy, nosy, but very sexy widow named Hortensia (Raquel Welch) comes along, the troublesome subcurrents in the family start to surface. Elizondo's understated gravitas anchors the story, while the three sisters have sex, eat amazing-looking food, and break plates in the kitchen. --Bret Fetzer

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Raquel Welch, Hector Elizondo. A master chef meets a new love while his three grown daughters learn to cope. Based on Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman . 2001/color/103 min/NR.

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47 of 49 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Contemporary "Like Water for Chocolate" August 17, 2001
Finally! "Tortilla Soup" is such an uplifting and lighthearted portrayal of contemporary Mexican-American life. Although it uses alot of cliche and works so hard to break negative stereotypes, this Mexican remake of another Ang Lee script is an original in its remedy to mainstream beliefs about Mexican-American culture. As in "Like Water for Chocolate" this movie puts cliche to good use by weaving America's popular, but narrow, idea that Latin food and romance are the greatest contributions to American culture. But we also get a fresh taste of the earthy Latin comedy that we so rarely see on the silver screen. Like Paul Rodriguez' comment about food "toppings". The cast gives great performances and Hector Elisondo is brilliant as the backbone of the family and the film. The actors in this film portray the abilities of Hollywood's new faces with a fresh sense of depth and Raquel Welch has reached a point in her career where she can really laugh at herself, and that's funny. "Tortilla Soup" brilliantly and sensually displays the artful process of gourmet Mexican and how food as culture, as art, as tradition, can bring people together.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars The Way to a Man's Heart is through.............. August 31, 2001
The director, Maria Ripoll and the screenwriter, Vera Blasi had an uphill battle to say the least when they decided to adapt the incomparable Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman" to the screen with their "Tortilla Soup." Martin Naranjo (Hector Elizondo) is a master chef, though semi-retired from the restaurant he created, and living with three daughters: Leticia (Elizabeth Pena), the oldest and a high school chemistry teacher, Carmen (Jacqueline Obrados), an MBA and very successful in business and Maribel, in high school and searching for the "meaning of life" as all teenagers should be doing. This film is very much like "Soul Food" in that most of the action revolves around the dinner table with luscious-looking food designed and prepared by the "Hot Tamales" of Food TV fame. And like Ang Lee's film all the daughters and their father are searching for love, happiness and contentment.Aren't we all? There is no violence except for a few dishes that get broken. In fact nothing much happens except we are made privy to several interesting people and watch as they conduct their lives in a rich, deep and fulfilling manner. Besides Elizondo who always does a great job, the standout performance has to be Jacqueline Obrados as Carmen. Keep your eyes open in the future as I'm sure we are going to see great things from her. An interesting note: Nikolai Kinski, grandson of the famous Klaus and son of the also famous Nastassia plays Maribel's boyfriend, Andy. That's three generations of Kinski's now in the movies and Nikolai makes a good impression in a basic no frills role. Food means love, sharing and camaraderie in "Tortilla Soup," (Mexican characters) as it did in "Soul Food"(African-American characters) and "Eat Drink Man Woman" (Taiwanese characters). Maybe the United Nations should make note of this. You think?
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars As irresistible as margaritas, guacamole, y salsa December 17, 2003
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Now we can own movies we love
After seeing this movie a number of times I decided to buy it for my movie collection. It's a drama but funny and uplifting as well.
Published 1 month ago by Karen Kever
5.0 out of 5 stars Greatttt movie
My family loves this movie, and we played it often, all the characters played in this movie are just fun and great!
Published 1 month ago by MoonSon
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun!
I love Hector Elizondo and this movie was the perfect place for him. All the scenes with the chef chopping, slicing, etc. were just perfect here. Read more
Published 1 month ago by pipemajorsmum
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun movie.
Just a very pleasant movie to watch. No sex or violence.
I don't care how old Racquel Welch is--She is HOT!!
Published 1 month ago by BEN DOVER
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this movie!
One of my favorite movies for sure! All the love in the kitchen & what we think we see is not always so. Great lessons to remember.
Published 1 month ago by Jayne
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Awesome glad I got this item it works great it does the job great. I received this item so quick I was blown away.
Published 1 month ago by Alex
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!
Even though I'm a girl I usually don't watch many "chick flicks" but this one was really good. Funny, heartwarming & a little different from most of the movies I watch. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Evelyn Southall
5.0 out of 5 stars I am glad I bought this movie..
Good movie, good acting, just an enjoyable movie. I have watched this movie on TV and wanted to own it.
Published 2 months ago by Dona R Thompson
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful cooking scenes
Story about a widowed father that has raised three daughters. His job was chief chef ... a career that provided a good living for him and his beautiful daughters... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars How to describe?
This film has a rich, lush style to it. Back in a time when ethnically-themed stories were big ("Soul Food" "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and so on), this was... Read more
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