Hector Elizondo: Tortilla Soup - Movie

Tortilla Soup
Cast :	Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Obradors
Director :	MarÃa Ripoll
Studio :	Columbia/Tristar Studios
Format :	Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Released Date :	January 01, 2001
DVD Released Date :	January 20, 2004
Language :	Spanish (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Audience Rating :	PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Customer Reviews

Rating
Date	October 26, 2004
Summary	Wonderfully done comedy!
Content	This is the way comedy should be done- warm, funny, heart-touching, with a little craziness thrown in. Hector Elizondo and Raquel Welch are perfect- he's understated, she's over the top...just like the movie. The story never bogs down, but zips right along nicely. The sisters bicker, their father worries, Hortensia (Welch) does her best to snag him, and we laugh. Great fun! A note on the rating for parents like me who wonder about the PG13 rating (one can never tell these days!): There's one woman shown in skimpy underclothing, and one sex scene along with sexual references and jokes, so this would not be suitable for kids.

Rating
Date	July 10, 2004
Summary	Watch the Original
Content	An EXACT copy of Ang Lee's wonderful "Eat Drink Man Woman". Frankly what annoyed me here was I watched this one first.. I just finished watching Eat Drink.. it took me about 15 minutes to realize I was watching an exact copy of something I'd already seen a couple years ago. Anyway, I was annoyed because while I could predict events in Eat Drink because I'd seen Tortilla Soup, Eat Drink was clearly the better movie -- so unfortunately it spoiled some of the pleasure of Eat Drink for me. If you haven't seen either, see the better of the two (exact same stories): Eat Drink Man Woman.

Rating
Date	July 10, 2004
Summary	Accesible, entertaining version of "Eat Drink Man Woman"
Content	On accident I rented "Eat Drink Man Woman" and "Tortilla Soup" almost back to back. I didn't know that "Tortilla Soup" was a remake of "Eat Drink Man Woman" but I enjoyed it a lot more. I still liked EDMW but found that TS was much more entertaining and approachable. The humor and culture were more familiar and as a result it was easier to identify with the characters. The Japanese culture in EDMW was interesting as a study in itself but prevented me from feeling involved in the movie. The cooking sequences in both are a pleasure to watch and both make you appreciate the art of cooking. Both films join "Babbette's Feast" as landmark "cooking" movies, celebrating food's ability to bring people together and provide meaningful social interaction. If your in the mood for a funny, romantic, uplifting film I highly recommend it.

Rating
Date	July 08, 2004
Summary	Great immitation.
Content	Tortilla Soup is a wonderful duplication of Ang Lee's classic Eat Drink Man Woman. From beginning to end, it pretty much sticks to the original, with faithful copying down to the last detail. The director shows a stroke of genius in carefully subsituting Asian characters with Latino ones.

Rating
Date	May 26, 2004
Summary	Tortilla Soup - Hector Elizondo
Content	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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