In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
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Food Network posted the recipes for all of the dishes on their website. Specific dishes prepared for the movie include: - Lobster Salad in Potato Leek Nests - Duck Hash on Toasted Baguette - Spiced Lamb Shanks with Blood Orange Relish - Roasted Quail with Brioche and Chorizo Stuffing - Risotto Barolo with Roasted Vegetables - Bananas Foster - Poulet Tchoupitoulas.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
The casino employee reports Georgia's roulette winnings total 3,546,305 Czech crowns (CZK), which i described as "about a hundred thousand dollars". At the exchange rate during the time of shooting, this would have been closer to $150,000.
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Quotes
Gunther:
[reading the fax on Georgia's misdiagnosis]
Ya-Ha-Ha!
[calmly]
Gunther:
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Crazy Credits
The end credits show us how everybody in the movie's futures turned out.
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"Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom-Boom)"
by Jeff Barry & Bobby Bloom Performed by The Staples Singers Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.
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