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* New This Week: Director Maria Ripoll and screenwriters Ramon Menendez, Tom Musca and Vera Blasi have stirred a fine “Tortilla Soup,” transposing Ang Lee’s 1994 Oscar-nominated “Eat Drink Man Woman” from Taipei to East Los Angeles with the greatest of ease. Hector Elizondo heads a terrific ensemble cast as a long-widowed eminent chef and traditional patriarch who needs to let go of his grown daughters (Jacqueline Obradors, Elizabeth Pena and Tamara Mello). With a scene-stealing Raquel Welch as a husband-hunting glamour puss. Warm, funny and wise, the film is worth sipping.

What’s Hot

Top 5 VHS rentals:

1. The Fast and the Furious

2. The Princess Diaries

3. Rush Hour 2

4. The Score

5. What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Top 5 DVD rentals:

1. The Fast and the Furious

2. Rush Hour 2

3. The Score

4. Pearl Harbor

5. What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

Rental video charts provided by VSDAVidTrac, sales charts by VideoScan Inc.