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Release Date:
3 August 1994 (USA)
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The Ingredients of Life more
Plot:
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members. full summary | add synopsis
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Chef
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Christianity
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Food
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Restaurant
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Baptism
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 4 wins
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9 nominations
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(6 articles)
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Well-Crafted And Observant
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Sihung Lung | ... | Chu | |
| Yu-Wen Wang | ... | Jia-Ning | |
| Chien-lien Wu | ... | Jia-Chien | |
| Kuei-Mei Yang | ... | Jia-Jen | |
| Sylvia Chang | ... | Jin-Rong | |
| Winston Chao | ... | Li Kai | |
| Chao-jung Chen | ... | Guo Lun | |
| Lester Chit-Man Chan | ... | Raymond | |
| Yu Chen | ... | Rachel | |
| Ya-lei Kuei | ... | Madame Liang | |
| Chi-Der Hong | ... | Class Leader | |
| Gin-Ming Hsu | ... | Coach Chai | |
| Huel-Yi Lin | ... | Sister Chang | |
| Shih-Jay Lin | ... | Chief's Son | |
| Chin-Cheng Lu | ... | Ming-Dao |
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123 min
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Certification:
Iceland:L |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
USA:TV-PG |
Australia:PG |
Singapore:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:S |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:PG |
USA:Unrated |
South Korea:15 |
Germany:12
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The opening sequence - in which a Sunday lunch is lovingly prepared - took over a week to film.
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Continuity: When Madame Liang arrives by cab at her house together with her daughter and her grandchild, it is heavily raining, however, right in front of the taxi the road is wet, but there are no rain drops visible, in particular not in the puddle right in font of the cab.
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Referenced in "3rd Rock from the Sun: Eat, Drink, Dick, Mary (#3.27)" (1998)
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LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
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The well-traveled metaphor of food as communication is given a tender, appealing treatment in Ang Lee's finely observed film about a widower whose aging and loneliness have caused him to lose touch with his three grown daughters, each of whom is looking for love in modern-day Taiwan. The father (a gallant Sihung Lung) is a master chef who has begun to lose his sense of taste while attempting to come to grips with his daughters' increasing independence and the failing health of his best friend (Jui Wang); he begins to question the basis of existence, namely love and food. The daughters, meanwhile, feeling cramped by their father's distance, begin to explore notions of freedom from their cramped quarters. Lee is in a positive, sympathetic frame of mind here, articulately exploring the theme of alienation that he would later revisit with a much more gloomy perspective in `The Ice Storm' and though the film holds virtually no surprises, it is a stylistic success, easy to like and moving effortlessly with a superior sense of rhythm; it's always pleasing, even when the content feels overly familiar. He demonstrates a healthy respect for his characters (with the exception of a divorcee whose bitter views of marriage don't stop her from pursuing Lung)--everyone gets to play out their lives with dignity and happiness and without an ounce of filmmaker moralizing.