Eat Drink Man Woman
Like the cuisine it celebrates, this movie is tart, sweet, generous and subtle.
-- Richard Schickel, Time Magazine
Eat Drink Man Woman
Chu is a master chef who has lost his sense of taste. He has three daughters with very different personalities: the eldest daughter, Jia-Jen, is a Christian, and since her mother's death, she has taken up her mother's duties as the eldest daughter and dedicated herself to her family; the second, Jia-Chien, is a high-ranking executive of an airline company and is smart and capable, inherited with her father's culinary skills, but she does not go into her own kitchen, and only wants to buy a house and leave her home; The youngest daughter, Jia-Ning, is a college student starting to explore romance . For the weekly family dinner, Chu prepares a sumptuous meal, but his daughters have their own problems, and the conflict between the two generations always comes to the forefront. When Mrs. Liang, the mother of neighbor Jin-Rong, returns from the United States, everyone's lives gradually change.
Genre
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Anniversary Classics
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Runtime
127
Language
Mandarin,
French
Director
Ang Lee
Writer(s)
Ang Lee,
James Schamus,
Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Sihung Lung,
Kuei-mei Yang,
Chien-lien Wu,
Yu-wen Wang,
Winston Chao,
Ah-Leh Gua,
Sylvia Chang
Awards:
Nominee, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards
Played at
Royal 7.24.19 - 7.24.19
Glendale 7.24.19 - 7.24.19
Playhouse 7 7.24.19 - 7.24.19
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