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)

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Soundtrack

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