What Are Some of Your Favorite (Or Not So Favorite) Foodie Movies?
I hope this is an appropriate topic for this group. Anyway, these are my favorites:
Tortilla Soup: Charming Hispanic-American version of Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Lots of meticulous food prep footage, and a single Dad (ok, a chef, but still...) who makes the most astonishingly elaborate family weekend meals. Dish after dish after dish, wrapped things, soups, five or six pots of simmering sauces on the stove, hand cranked ice cream, and that's leaving a lot out. Wonderful story, and Paul Rodriguez adds humor.
Last Holiday: Another charmer. Not as much food footage as Tortilla Soup, but it was supervised by the Food Network, and the food came across as authentic rather than movie props. Not a deep movie by any means, but very entertaining.
Tampopo: A fairly old Japanese foodie comedy. Loved this movie. Downtrodden widow supporting her bullied young son with a noodle soup restaurant that makes godawful noodle soup. Heroic truck driver and his sidekick enter the picture, get caught up in the widow's plight, and together they go to the ends of the earth, it seems, to discover the secrets of the best noodle soup makers. Very funny and uplifting. Unusual, food-inspired comedy.
Other foodie films:
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman is good, but a Chinese twin of Tortilla Soup. Tortilla Soup seemed warmer, more colorful, and the food looked more appealing to me, so I prefer that movie.
Mostly Martha is the German twin of No Reservations, which I liked, but didn't love. I suppose the fact that I thought the main character was selfish and mean has something to do with it.
Because I Said So: Didn't like the characters, didn't like the movie, and was utterly put off by the unprofessionalism displayed by caterers who nonchalantly dip their fingers in the frosting on a cake.
Sleeping With the Enemy: Ok, not a foodie movie, but I have to mention this because its few food scenes are so appallingly fake. Seriously, hapless Julia Roberts brings an "apple pie" to dinner at the neighbor's and doesn't bother to hide the fact that it's a pie dish with crust but no filling. Just empty crust. Then for dinner they have red potatoes which are clearly raw, an undressed salad with no dressing in sight, and a "pot roast" which is composed of a roasting pan with no pot roast, just a braid of whatever flammable rope they lit to pretend the "pot roast" caught fire. I dunno, the fact that they made so little effort to disguise the fakeness of the food really bothered me.
Am I missing any foodie movies? (I hope so!)
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yet they do have something to do with "food" (thanks to a blog I was looking at for ideas beyond what's already been listed 
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Eating Raoul
Parents
Delicatessen
Yeah, they're all dark comedies about cannibalism 
Oh, we do need a food-film based off the hilarious Cake Wrecks site, if that's at all possible 
There are many movies listed here that haven't heard of so I'll definitely be checking them out.
My suggestion: Like Water for Chocolate Haven't seen that on in a while so I think I'll be viewing that one again too! 
I must see Babette's Feast, of course, but Like Water For Chocolate sounds good, as does Today's Special. Can't believe I haven't seen them. I've seen Julie and Julia, which I forgot to mention, and although it wasn't my favorite, I need to admit that I've seen it over and over.
Oh, and I liked the spaghetti and opera music scene in Fatal Attraction. Sometimes a scene is all you get, which doesn't qualify a movie as a "foodie movie", I don't think, but it can be just as compelling.
And National Velvet, come to think of it, has a roast leg of lamb, homemade bread, mashed potato and Castle pudding scene, as well as numerous butcher shop scenes and whole shelves of homemade jams, jellies and canned vegetables. (Yeah, I watch movies like National Velvet). 
