The Carpetbagger
The appeal of the food movie is perhaps best summed up by YouTube user Zenophobius: “Watching people feasting is like watching them ****ing - you can’t help but watch them indulging their primal pleasures. So yes, I guess I love porn and I love a good foodie movie.” Who doesn’t? So, in honor of America’s annual salute to gluttony Thanksgiving, here are our picks for five of the most delicious (yes, we said it) food films of all time.
Stanley Tucci co-wrote and co-directed this 1996 film that features one of the most sumptuous meals ever prepared on camera. If your salivary glands aren’t going into overdrive by the time they start taking the cover off of the timpano, then you have no soul. And no stomach. This is by far Stanley Tucci’s finest film, and if you want any performance from him that comes close to touching it, you’ll have to rent the audiobook version of The Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Tucci does a terrific job of reading that. Oh, and who could forget his wonderful acting in The Impostors?
