feature film
Tortilla Soup
GENERAL INFO
Feature Film | 2001 | Romantic Comedy, Drama | 1h 42 min
Original Title: Tortilla Soup
Director: Maria Ripoll
Writer: Ramón Menéndez, Tom Musca, Vera Blasi
Starring: Elizabeth Pena, Hector Elizondo, Jacqueline Orbradors, Tamara Mello, Raquel Welch
Music: Bill Conti
Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn Jr. , Meyer Gottlieb, John Bard Manulis
Sinopsis: Three grown sisters, Maribel, Leticia and Carmen try to cope and live with the fact that their father Martin, a veteran chef, is slowly losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman sets her sights on Martin’s affections.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
What the press says
Elizondo casts a kind of magical warm spell over them all | Roger Egbert 2001 + READ MORE
Inspired by Ang Lee’s «Eat Drink Man Woman» relocates it to America | BBC Film Reviews 2002 + READ MORE
Addictive and accurate generational portrait | El Periodico 2016 + READ MORE | + READ MORE (spanish)
WHERE TO WATCH
Vix.com
Soundtrack
Listen on Spotify (fanlist by Grace Soups )