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  1. The Hundred-Foot Journey Ending Explained

    "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is a heartwarming film that tells the story of Hassan Kadam, a talented young chef from India, who moves to a small village in France with his family. The film explores themes of culture, tradition, and the power of food to bring people together. However, the ending of the movie leaves some viewers with questions ...

  2. The Hundred-Foot Journey (film)

    The Hundred-Foot Journey is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay written by Steven Knight, adapted from Richard C. Morais' 2010 novel of the same name. It stars Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Le Bon, and is about a battle in a French village between two restaurants that are directly across the street from each other: a new Indian ...

  3. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

    The Hundred-Foot Journey: Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon. The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.

  4. The Hundred-Foot Journey Summary

    They settle in a tiny French town in the Alps called Lumière and buy a huge property across from an inn called Le Saule Pleureur. On it, they open the Maison Mumbai, which is the first Indian restaurant in the area. There's instant trouble afoot in paradise. They immediately encounter the neurotic, competitive and high-and-mighty Madame ...

  5. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

    The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), 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 ...

  6. The Hundred-Foot Journey movie review (2014)

    Powered by JustWatch. "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is a film that demands that you take it seriously. With its feel-good themes of multicultural understanding, it is about Something Important. It even comes with the stamp of approval from titanic tastemakers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, who both serve as producers.

  7. Movie Review: 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'

    Movie Review: 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' Films that mix food and romance have become a staple of recent movie-making. ... They end up in a tiny town where Madame Mallory, proud proprietor of a ...

  8. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    Rated: 3.0/4.0 • Sep 11, 2020. Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is an extraordinarily talented and largely self-taught culinary novice. When he and his family are displaced from their native India ...

  9. The Hundred-Foot Journey review

    A n Indian restaurateur and his family flee communal violence in Mumbai ("some election or other," the voice-over glibly informs us), and pitch up in southern France, where they open a gaudy curry ...

  10. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    The Hundred-Foot Journey is a novel written by Richard C. Morais and published in 2008. It was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 2014. Plot. It is a story about how the hundred-foot distance between a new Indian restaurant and a traditional French one represents the gulf between different cultures and desires.

  11. Film Review: 'The Hundred-Foot Journey'

    It's the older, top-billed leads who manage the heavy lifting: Though she's encumbered somewhat by her French accent, Mirren is superb at both projecting an air of hauteur and expressing the ...

  12. The Hundred Foot Journey Review: Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey

    August 7, 2014 1:20 PM EDT. W ith Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey serving as producers, and a story that forges warm feelings between two generations of restaurant rivals, The Hundred-Foot ...

  13. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    The Hundred Foot Journey is directed by Lasse Hallstrom from the bestselling novel of the same title by Richard C. Morais. As a culinary drama, this is a very appealing movie with its plentiful scenes of food and cooking that stir the senses. Screenplay writer Steven Knight who caught some of the tensions centered around immigrant communities ...

  14. THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY

    No last second impulse needed here. Fulfilling, rich and delicious, THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY is an effervescent delight, sizzling with cinematic and emotional flavor. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Written by Steven Knight based on the novel by Richard Morais. Cast: Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, Charlotte Le Bon.

  15. Lessons learned from the movie The Hundred Foot Journey

    Never give up. Try and try again: I loved the humble, innocent personality of the young chef Hassan. He had such a desire to learn all he could, to open his mind, to try new things, to experiment, to TRY. Even though he was shamed at one point. He did not give up, he did not question his ability. He tried again.

  16. 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' Movie Review

    Hassan ends up training with Madame, a process that works so well that he moves up and out to become the culinary toast of Paris and an arrogant prick. The heavy plot sauce weighs down the movie ...

  17. The Hundred-Foot Journey Movie Review

    Parents say ( 5 ): Kids say ( 11 ): Like beef bourguignon, one of the many dishes filmed so delectably in this production, THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY is a crowd-pleasing classic. The family story, told with empathy and love here, is its base; the food scenes that are odes to the art of cooking, framed through a cross-cultural prism, are its mea ...

  18. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    The Hundred-Foot Journey, based on the novel of the same name by Richard C. Morais, is a sweet and savory treat of a film with only hints of content-derived sourness—a love story ragoût of romance, family and food. It stresses the importance of all those things, while suggesting that fame and fortune and even Michelin stars aren't that ...

  19. The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

    Release Date: August 8, 2014. In the charming The One-Hundred Foot Journey, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France.

  20. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    Widely criticized for its lack of originality, The Hundred-Foot Journey is not only a predictable by-the-numbers schmaltz, but also an unapologetic crowd-pleaser, a multisensory delight, food porn with a big heart and comfort food at its finest all rolled into a succulent, brilliantly crafted and instantly enjoyable classic tale of self-discovery, tolerance and loyalty, sprinkled with an ...

  21. The Hundred-Foot Journey

    The journey of the title refers to the hundred feet from the Kadam's restaurant to Mallory's, and just as Hassan's cooking crosses the divide between these seemingly incompatible cultures, so too do the friendships that are forged. While this is technically a film about Hassan, it is the rivalry and then friendship between Papa and Madame ...

  22. Where Was The Hundred-Foot Journey Filmed? FULL List + Map!

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Filming Locations in France. 1. Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, Tarn-et-Garonne. The film opens with the Kadam family in Mumbai, India. Terrorists bomb their restaurant over a political issue, so the family seek asylum in London, England before settling in Midi-Pyrénées. The first The Hundred-Foot Journey location in France ...

  23. Hundred Foot Journey (Morais)

    Hundred Foot Journey (Morais) 1. The title of the novel is The Hundred-Foot Journey. Discuss the title in relation to where Hassan started and where he ends up—in both the geographic and the psychological senses. Ultimately, which journey do you feel was more important?