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Tortilla Soup

2001 · 103 min

A warm, easygoing family comedy-drama full of food, laughter, and gentle romance, like a comforting home-cooked meal.

Tagline
A comedy to arouse your appetite.
Overview
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • love
  • identity
  • parenthood
  • grief
Places
  • suburbs
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
María Ripoll
Written by
Vera Blasi, Tom Musca, Ramón Menéndez
Starring
Jacqueline Obradors, Tamara Mello, Judy Herrera, Nikolai Kinski, Elizabeth Peña, Constance Marie, Troy Ruptash, Ken Marino
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Cinematography
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Runtime
103 min
Country
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Languages
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