IMDb plot summary: The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
Directed by Lasse Hallström. Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri, and Manish Dayal.
The Hundred-Foot Journey tells the story of an Indian family who journeys to France to set up an Indian restaurant in a town that has no reference point for those kinds of flavors. They happened to set up their restaurant across the street from a Michelin star-ranked restaurant specializing in French cuisine, and the two are quickly in competition. This is one of those movies that I watch and I think, “This is something my mother would like to watch.” It's sweet, with likable characters, and nobody in here is unredeemable and everybody gives nice performances. There's nothing wrong with that, but it would have been fun to have something a little bit more substantial in this. It may have soured for me in that the movie takes a strange plot turn about halfway through, with most of the initial plot setup being suddenly resolved, and I'm less convinced by the new plot it decides to follow. I will say though, as should be the case with all food movies, everything looks delicious. An unremarkable but sweet little movie.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Hundred-Foot Journey < Arthur Christmas
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Goldfinger
The Hundred-Foot Journey < No Highway in the Sky
The Hundred-Foot Journey < Burlesque
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Andrei Rublev
The Hundred-Foot Journey > McLintock!
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Amen.
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Nine
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Beach Party
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Paradise
The Hundred-Foot Journey > Follow Thru
The Hundred-Foot Journey < Master Harold and the Boys
Final spot: #2644 out of 3844, or 31%.
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