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Eat Drink Man Woman
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Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu (Sihung Lung) prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu's exotic...
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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 centra...
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| Key Information | |
| Stars | Sihung Lung |
| Actors | Chien-Lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Winston Chao, Yu-Wen Wang |
| Available Formats | DVD, VHS |
| Directors | Ang Lee |
| UPC | 027616813633, 027616867858, 651021101803, 707729300144 |
| Genre | Foreign Films |
| Subgenre | Family Interaction • Racy • Chinese/Mandarin • Comedy |
| MPAA Rating | Not Rated |
| Release Date | 1994 |
| Running Time | 2hr 4min |
| Languages | |
| Original Language | Chinese/Mandarin |
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| Professional Reviews | |
| Professional Reviews | (05/23/1994, Leonard Klady): "...Ambitious and entertaining....A cinematic feast...", (06/30/1995, p.3D, Mike Clark): "A title that covers all the bases befits an Oscar-nominated comedy full of incident...", (08/03/1994, p.C16, Janet Maslin): "...Delectable....[Lee is] a warmly engaging storyteller under any circumstances...", (08/03/1994, p.F1, Kenneth Turan): "...Wise and rueful....Strikingly confident...", (08/12/1994, p.40, Lisa Schwarzbaum): "...Bighearted....The personalities...combine to produce subtle new flavors..." -- Rating: A- |
| Quotes from the Movie | |
| Quotes from the Movie |
"Now she has the perfect boyfriend: Jesus Christ."--Old Wen (Jui Wang) to Chu (Sihung Lung) "Good sound is not in the ear, good taste is not in the mouth, and good sex...God knows where...."--Old Wen to Chu "I think the only reason we're not divorced is that we're both too busy."--Li Kai (Winston Chao) to Jia-Chien (Chien-lien Wu) "This worry is what makes us a family."--Chu to his daughters "Eat, drink, man, woman. Food and sex. Basic human desires. Can't avoid them! All my life, everyday, all I do. It pisses me off."--Chu to Old Wen |
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