This is a feel good movie. Helen Mirren is amazing as a French restaurant owner (Madame Mallory) in France. After years of enjoying no immediate surrounding competition, an East Indian family headed by Papa (Om Puri) with an extraordinary gifted chef, Hassan (Manish Dayal), takes ownership of an old defunct restaurant 100 feet across from her. Sparks start flying as soon as she discovers that the new restaurant was going to be real competition. Anyone who follows Helen Mirren’s career knows she is an outstanding actress and can and does get the very best of her acting abilities from every movie she’s a part of. She comes across exactly as she should in The Hundred- Foot Journey; stubborn, heart felt and classy.
100′ across the walkway is the new family that had to flee their home in India because of dangerous uprisings that wiped out their entire livelihood, including Mama (Juhi Chawla) wife and mother and teacher of the fine culinary art of Indian cooking. The gifted chef is their son, Hassan who becomes smitten with Madame Mallory’s Su-Chef, Marguerite (Charlotte LeBon). It is magic watching these 2 families struggle to make their circumstances work in a world where competition is fierce and winning is everything. I really enjoyed this movie and think is sends life lessons that everyone can benefit from, especially at a time when WW3 seems to be lurking around the corner. It’s definitely worth taking the time out to see.
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