After being cheated on by an insecure man, Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco and finds success as the host of a cooking show.After being cheated on by an insecure man, Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco and finds success as the host of a cooking show.After being cheated on by an insecure man, Brazilian chef Isabella Oliveira moves to San Francisco and finds success as the host of a cooking show.
- Awards
- 3 nominations
Penélope Cruz
- Isabella Oliveira
- (as Penelope Cruz)
Harold Perrineau
- Monica Jones
- (as Harold Perrineau Jr.)
John de Lancie
- Alex Reeves
- (as John De Lancie)
June Carryl
- Zeke
- (as June A. Lomena)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAll interiors for the San Francisco scenes were shot in soundstages in Brazil.
- GoofsAs Isabella is leaving the Fish & Chips, her umbrella blows away to her right, yet the rain is falling straight down.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Jay Leno Show: Episode #1.44 (2009)
- SoundtracksBrazil
Written by Ary Barroso
Performed by Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra
Courtesy of Columbia Records
By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Featured review
I saw "Woman on top" yesterday and I found it very nice. It's a very funny story set first in Bahia (Brazil) and then in San Francisco, when Isabella (Penelope Cruz) became a TV star in a TV program about food. Penelope Cruz is very good in the role but it would be better if the role of Isabella was given to a brazilian actress (like for example Giovanna Antonelli, who would be perfect for the role), because a Spanish actress, even if she is good, who plays a sensual brazilian cook do not sound such well. Murilo Benicio (Toninho), one of the best brazilian young actors, is very good, very funny and so handsome and sexy! The story is very colorful and the music is beautiful, with many brazilian bossa nova hits like "Aquarela do Brasil" and "Vocè". The idea of Isabella having a best friend who is a drag queen is very good and also the idea of the TV program about the passion in brazilian cooking is excellent (and it remembers the role of the sensual cook Dona Flora played by Sonia Braga in "Dona Flor and her two husbands" by Bruno Barreto). If you want to feel the passion, the color, the music of Brazil, you have to watch this movie, even if, I repeat again, a brazilian actress would be better for the main role. I give it a 7.
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,020,111
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,008,191
- Sep 24, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $10,194,274
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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