Estimated Budget: $22,000,000
Nominated for a Golden Globe Award
"Your home is where your family is".
The Hundred-Foot Journey is a feel-good movie which combines beautiful scenery, with great food and impeccable acting, heavily based around a collision of culture and values, but ultimately a love story in the making.
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This movie has a gripping Storyline, and the writer has made a unique connection with the audience, after watching this movie, you feel like you know each and every one of the characters personally.
When the Kadam family are forced to move away from their home Country, due to a tragedy, they take the decision to move to small French village, not by choice but an accident in their vehicle causes them to break down, is this fate?
The Kadam family decide to purchase a derelict building exactly one Hundred feet away from Madame Mallory's (Helen Mirren) Michelin-starred restaurant.
Panic ensues, and this is the start of 'Restaurant Wars' between the two heads (Om Puri/Helen Mirren) in the midst of all of the problems, a great young chef 'Hassan' earns his way from being at the bottom of the pile all the way to the tippity top of his profession.
The comedic value added by Om Puri (East is East) and the impeccable french accent by Helen Mirren (The Queen) adds to the overall excitement of this film.
This is by far one of the best stories I have followed and one of the best movies I have seen in a very long time, I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone.
Unfortunately I have not given this movie a 5 Star review, because it can seem a little 'empty' in places, and I feel there were more opportunities in this movie for the characters lives to be explored a little more,
Further Storlyline (Source IMDb).
"The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam, has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance auto accident and the kindness of a young woman, Marguerite, in the village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val inspires Papa Kadam to set up a Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts the Kadams in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallory's acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street where Marguerite also works as a sous-chef. The resulting rivalry eventually escalates in personal intensity until it goes too far. In response, there is a bridging of sides initiated by Hassan, Marguerite and Madame Mallory herself, both professional and personal, that encourages an understanding that will change both sides forever".
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