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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 20  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 7.5/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins

Synopsis: Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of... Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome's general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with their separate, lonely lives. But something new is cooking that is about to spice up everyone's existence, and three marriages and a funeral later, the Chu family will learn to embrace life's unpredictabilty. The third and final film in director Ang Lee's Father Knows Best trilogy, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN is laugh-out-loud funny in its depiction of the foibles of the contemporary Taiwanese family. Whenever one of the characters utters "I have an announcement," be prepared for ensuing hilarity. The film also movingly captures the complexities of modern life, the inevitability of change, and the necessity for Zen-like balance. Lee himself seems to have absorbed the film's central message. After this film, he began to take on a variety of projects, boldly covering vastly different subjects such as 18th-century England, the New Age 1970s, and the Civil War. [More]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Chien-Lien Wu, Yu-Wen Wang, Winston Chao

Director: Ang Lee

DVD Info

Release:

May 3, 2002

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - Mandarin

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailer - 1. U.S. Theatrical Trailer
  • Interview - 1. Ang Lee - Director

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12/26/06
Michael Dequina
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3/4

Ang Lee's two-generational soap opera displays the most elaborate food preparation and the most delectable meals since Like Water for Chocolate.

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06/21/06
Emanuel Levy
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The creatively decorative food presentations upstage the soap opera story.

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03/28/06
Dennis Schwartz
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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
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06/19/04
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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02/08/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
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Rebecca Murray
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3/5

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10/16/03
Walter Chaw
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4/5

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08/21/03
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly
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05/20/03
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Janet Maslin
New York Times
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3/5

Solid but sometimes slow drama. I prefer the update "Tortilla Soup."

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02/28/03
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal
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01/10/03
Nick Davis
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12/23/02
Philip Martin
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12/19/02
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)
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Superb interweaving of the motifs of food and the search for love

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08/23/02
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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01/09/02
Movieline
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What makes a movie like this work is how much you care for the characters, and each one here is very well-drawn and fully dimensional.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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