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Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

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Reviews Counted: 31

Fresh: 29

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7.4/10

Consensus: Though it suffers from problems of pace and character development, Ang Lee's generational comedy offers filmgoers a fine, low-calorie treat.

Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

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... 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]

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

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

Director: Ang Lee

Director: Ang Lee

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Mar 5, 2002

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A remarkably assured comedy-drama of domestic life in Taiwan.

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02/02/09
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Mildly charming.

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02/02/09
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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The study of social manners and suppressed feelings became Lee's specialty.

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08/27/08
Sean Axmaker
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Ambitious and entertaining.

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Leonard Klady
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12/26/06
Michael Dequina
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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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The food metaphor never carries weight, and the characterisations are too shallow to lend the film emotional punch.

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05/20/03
D. S.
Palo Alto Weekly

Wonderfully seductive, and nicely knowing about all of its characters' appetites.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Solid but sometimes slow drama. I prefer the update "Tortilla Soup."

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02/28/03
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