Tortilla Heaven Movie

Tortilla Heaven
Rating:
Run Time: 97 min
MPAA Rating: PG13
Released: 2007
Directors: Judy Hecht Dumontet
Genre/Type: Comedy Drama
Religious Comedy
Producers: Judy Hecht Dumontet
Gilbert Dumontet
Pepe Iturralde
Courtney Mizel
Plot Synopsis by Jason Buchanan
A tightly-knit New Mexico community devoted to God, family, and fresh Mexican food is unexpectedly thrust into the national spotlight when the face of Jesus Christ appears on a tasty tortilla as the owner and head cook prepares for the Sunday lunch rush. Isidor Navarro is the owner and proprietor of Tortilla Heaven - a modest Mexican restaurant located in the remote town of Falfurrias. Though Tortilla Heaven may indeed have the best food in all of New Mexico, the only people aware of the restaurant are the seventy-two other residents who live in Falfurrias. All of that changes one fateful Sunday, however, when the citizens of Falfurrias file into church to pray the Lord's Mass and Isidor steps into the kitchen to make some fresh tortillas. When the dough that morning proves especially hard to handle and Isidor curses the difficult mixture before slamming it down on the grill, the God-fearing cook is suddenly taken aback when the face of Jesus Christ appears on the burnt tortilla. Of course in a tiny town like Falfurrias it's impossible to keep a secret, and the very next day curious citizens are filing into Tortilla Heaven to find out if there is any truth to the rumors concerning a divine flatbread. As Isidor realizes the moneymaking potential of the culinary anomaly and begins to charge admission, worshippers begin to appear from all corners of the state and Tortilla Heaven soon begins to turn a tidy profit. Later, after a series of incredible miracles are attributed to the tortilla, a shady city-slicker named Gil Garcia appears at Tortilla Heaven throwing around such words as "expansion" and "franchising." It doesn't take much for Gil to convince Isidor to sign on the dotted line, and it's only when greed begins to plague the citizens of Falfurrias that the true miracle comes to light.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
José Zuñiga Isidor
Miguel Sandoval Gil
Olivia Hussey Petra Apr 17, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
George Lopez Everardo Apr 23, 1961 in Mission Hills, CA
Marcelo Tubert Father Pancracio
Irene Bedard Liberata Jul 22, 1967 in Anchorage, AK
Lupe Ontiveros Adelfa
Alexis Cruz Marco
Judy Herrera Dinora
Del Zamora
Ana Ortiz Gipsi
Elaine Miles Apr 7, 1960 in Pendleton, OR
Elpidia Carrillo Hermenegilda
Geno Silva Don Transito
Rick Gutierrez
Deborah Chavez
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