Eat Drink Man Woman
by Ang Lee
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Actor: Ah-Leh Gua, Lester Chen, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao, Yang Kuei-MeiDirector: Ang Lee
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Jong Lin
Composer: Mader
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Mandarin Chinese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM World Films
DVD Reviews of Eat Drink Man Woman
DVD Review: Unforgetable lesson in family bond
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this movie 9 years ago while spending a semester abroad. Everytime I see this movie-and I have mulitple times since my first viewing-I think back to that most amazing and incredible time in my life. Most importantly I am reminded of the unshakable family bond that exists but is never really communicated amongst all families. I love the dynamics of this family because they are indeed a real family experiencing the ups and downs of real life. I loved how much I-a Puerto Rican living in America-related to a Chinese family. The movie is a great testament that regardless of who you are or where you come from we are human and we are share in the life experiences that being a human means. The movie brought tears, laughs and unexpected gratitude for my family's own misgivings. DVD Review: Eat Drink--Dark, Dreadful. Boring. A Waste of Time
Summary: 1 Stars
I watched Eat Drink to compare it with Tortilla Soup. The screenplay of Tortilla Soup (2001) is based on Eat Drink (1994). If you are tempted to see Eat Drink--STOP yourself, and watch Tortilla Soup instead! Tortilla Soup is a fun, delightful comedy drama (dramedy?) Eat Drink is a heavy, boring drama. Tortilla Soup has lively, colorful characters that are fun and enjoyable to watch. They have personalities. Tortilla Soup's characters have chemistry with each other that pulls you into their world. I enjoyed spending ninety minutes with them. Eat Drink has bland, cold-hearted, angry, serious characters with zombie-like personalities.
In its two long hours, Eat Drink uses miles and miles of dialogue to make the same point that Tortilla Soup makes in just seconds. For example, take the youngest daughter's new romance. In Tortilla Soup, she explains that her co-worker friend can't make the date with the guy waiting outside the record store. After a short conversation, she gets in the car with the guy, and we're off and running in about three minutes. Eat Drink on the other hand, drags this process out into several scenes and lots of dialogue, with added complications that slow the story down. It takes forever to get this romance underway, and the steps along the way are not much fun.
In Tortilla Soup, the story moves along at a nice clip. Eat Drink drags through long silences, excessive dialogue, and unnecessary scenes that should have been edited out.
Dinner time in Tortilla Soup is a celebration of lively family fun and sharing of experiences and personalities--these are people we care about. There's nervous anticipation about what will happen next. Dinner time in Eat Drink is a nightmare of icy coldness to be endured. I wanted to leave the table, and not spend any more time with those people.
Tortilla Soup has twists and surprises that keep us interested, and provide humor. Eat Drink remains serious throughout. Even when the mother-in-law collapses, Eat Drink is serious. That's a scene that begs for a laugh, but Eat Drink plays it dead serious.
In filmmaking, editing is so important. Whoever edited Eat Drink must have fallen asleep on the job in the editing booth. Eat Drink's editor left in the excessive dialog, the long silences, and the boring, unnecessary scenes that should have been cut.
The films have opposite endings. Eat Drink drags us through the father's depression as his daughters leave, and he's alone in his empty house. A sad, heavy mood ends the film. Tortilla Soups ends with a family dinner celebration at Carmen's successful new restaurant. Family members are in a jovial mood. They share the expectancy of new children, budding romances, Carmen's business success, and hope for the future. We see the warmth and joy of a loving family. It's a good feeling to end the movie on.
I don't understand the five star reviews here at Amazon for Eat Drink. It was dark and depressing.
I guess there are people in the world who just don't like optimism (and thus possibly won't like Tortilla Soup's optimism.) I'm an optimist, and I don't go to the movies to get dragged down into someone's dark depression and pessimism (like in Eat Drink.) There's plenty of that darkness in the real world, if you really want to focus on it. I go to the movies to have a good time--for an escape from the real world. I go for fantasy, and adventure, and romance, and fun. I like happy endings. That's why I recommend Tortilla Soup, and not Eat Drink Man Woman. Based on your tolerance for optimism or pessimism, you will have to decide which film you like.
DVD Review: Wonderful. Normal. Universal.
Summary: 5 Stars
Delightful comedy, with director/story-teller Ang Lee showing a delicately light and loving touch.
Others in their "reviews" tell you its story and plot. I tell you it's about: You, and your family.
Why are you reading this? Go -- now! -- and watch the film. But eat first.
DVD Review: Thoroughly enjoyable
Summary: 5 Stars
The synopsis in the back of the dvd cover is completely wrong! This movie has been a long time favorite of mine. It's accurate portrayal of a somewhat traditional Chinese father raising independent children in a hyper modernizing Taiwanese society is as accurate as it gets.
Good acting all round and a realistic script help drive this movie. Better than some of Ang Lee's later works, this has been somewhat forgotten in light of his Hollywood action flicks. This movie reminds us that Ang Lee can do sensitive drama well too.
DVD Review: Unimpressed
Summary: 1 Stars
This was what I've been curious about for oh so many years? This made Ang Lee hot? The acting sucks. The pace is slow. The plot is contrived. It doesn't even have a second of nudity. So much for not being rated. It's like Taiwan - boring. I only give it one star because that's the lowest.
Description of Eat Drink Man Woman
From celebrated director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility) comes a movieso visually stunning that it spans the "beautiful balance of elementsmellow, harmonious and poignantly funny" (The Washington Post). This "charming study of love, family and tradition" (Leonard Maltin) "tickles both mind and body" (Movie Reviews UK). Trouble is cooking forwidower and master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father. Every Sunday, he whips up a delicacy of dishes for his ungrateful daughters, who are so self-consumed that they don't see his attempt at showing them lovegastronomically.So, as relationships sour and communications break down, Chu concocts a sure-fire recipe that will bring his family back together: He creates his own love affair to rival his daughters' affections!This is not a movie to see on an empty stomach. Writer-director Ang Lee's 1994 Oscar nominee tells a family story about a chef and his three daughters through the meals the chef prepares and serves his family. This touching, dryly funny story of a family coping with personal lives and the way those lives intersect with the family relationships captures a shift in generations in Taipei. The father, a famous chef who has lost his taste buds, still cooks, though he draws no pleasure from eating. His daughters, meanwhile, deal with both the disappointments and surprises of daily living and the way their adult lives compare to the expectations the widowed father had for them. A subtle, amusing--and mouth-watering--comedy of impeccable manners. --Marshall Fine
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