Tortilla Soup (2001)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

María Ripoll

Writers (WGA):

Hui-Ling Wang (earlier screenplay) and
Ang Lee (earlier screenplay) ...

Release Date:

23 August 2002 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance | Drama

Tagline:

A comedy to arouse your appetite.

Plot:

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

Plot Keywords:

Remake Of Chinese Film | Food | Latino | Remake

Awards:

2 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Jacqueline Obradors	...	Carmen Naranjo
Tamara Mello	...	Maribel Naranjo
Judy Herrera	...	Eden
Nikolai Kinski	...	Andy
Elizabeth Peña	...	Leticia Naranjo
Constance Marie	...	Yolanda
Troy Ruptash	...	Hairdresser
Ken Marino	...	Jeff
Hector Elizondo	...	Martin Naranjo
Marisabel García	...	April
Julio Oscar Mechoso	...	Gomez
Louis Crugnali	...	Catering Assistant
Raquel Welch	...	Hortensia
Joel Joan	...	Antonio Urgell
Paul Rodriguez	...	Orlando Castillo

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content.

Runtime:

102 min | UK:103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Australia:M | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Iceland:L | Singapore:PG | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

El Segundo, California, USA

Company:

Samuel Goldwyn Films

Trivia:

The three poems that Leti's "secret admirer" sends her are "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "Her Face, Her Tongue, Her Wit" by Arthur Gorges, and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick. The last note is from Titania's speech in Act III, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Goofs:

Continuity: When the teacher reads another note after her students leave, one of the students who just left wears a purple shirt. When she looks back in at the teacher, she is wearing a green striped shirt.

Quotes:

Orlando Castillo: I love toppings. Sometimes I go to restaurants and I just order toppings.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Yin shi nan nu (1994)

Soundtrack:

Hoy Me Voy

Thought this was a "Chic Film"...it's not

Tortilla soup is all about family and food (dinner) and how each really draws inspiration from the other. The food is the hub from which the drama, and the laughs, turn.

Three daughters, each at different phases of their lives, are torn between their home lives ruled by their stern but loving father and the outside world. Dad, a chef, spoils them with some of the best nuevo spanish cuisine any latina daughter could ever possibly hope for, and has instilled in each an appreciation of food, and life. Dad is single, realizes he is about to lose the core of his family one by one and food is all he has, or so he thinks. Just when you think he'll be alone to cook for himself, surprises come in spades. And, as always, it's the food that draws them all back.