Director: María Ripoll
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Jade Herrera, Nikolai Kinski, Constance Marie, Tamara Mello, Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Peña, Raquel Welch, Paul Rodriguez

- Reviewed by Linda

Excellent foreign films, in this case Ang Lee's wonderful family drama Eat Drink Man Woman, should never be remade. I mean, what's the point? Film studios seem to think that Americans can't read movies, which is usually true, so they have to pander to the mainstream movie-goer and spurn out dreck like City of Angels (a bastardization of one of my favorite films ever, Wings of Desire). But if remakes continue, they should look to Tortilla Soup, a film which keeps the tone of the original film surprisingly well. Not only is it the same tone, but it is actually (and a little eerily) the exact same movie. I swear, literally scene for scene. 

A patriarch widower Martin (Hector Elizondo), a retired chef, has raised his brood of three daughters alone. Now they are all adult women and are starting to flee the coop, after lingering in their childhood home longer than most children would (in respect to their aging father). There are trials and tribulations, love, laughter, tears... everything you'd expect from a family drama. But the cast is up to it, and they have a great story to work with. But be sure to eat beforehand, because your stomach will be growling from the opening scene on.

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