Tortilla Soup is a 2001 American comedydrama film directed by Maria Ripoll. The screenplay by Tom Musca, Ramn Menndez and Vera Blasi is based on the film Eat Drink Man Woman, which was written by HuiLing Wang, Ang Lee, and James Schamus.
Leticia played by Elizabeth Pea, the oldest and most conservative of the three, is a repressed high school chemistry teacher who abandoned Catholicism to become a bornagain Christian. Middle daughter Carmen Jacqueline Obradors shares her fathers passion for food but has stifled her dream of owning a restaurant in favor of pursuing a more stable career as a business analyst. Maribel Tamara Mello, the youngest, is hip and slightly rebellious.Frequently present in the Naranjo home are newly divorced family friend Yolanda Constance Marie, her young daughter April, and her visiting mother Hortensia Raquel Welch, who has set her sights on Martin and is determined to make him her next husband, unaware his attention is focused on someone else. ........
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