Film

Woman on Top

2000 · 1h 32m · Comedy · Drama · Romance

A sexy comedy that turns happily ever after upside down.

IMDb

5.3

Rotten Tomatoes

35%

Metacritic

41

Set to the intoxicating rhythms of Brazil, "Woman on Top" is a spicy, sexy comedy about the magic of food, love and music. Meet Isabella, a sultry enchantress born with the special gift of melting the palates and hearts of men everywhere. When she decides to break free from her rocky marriage and the stifling kitchen of her husband's restaurant in Brazil, she spirits off to San Francisco in pursuit of her dreams of a real culinary career.

Penélope Cruz

Isabella Oliveira

Murilo Benício

Toninho Oliveira

Mark Feuerstein

Cliff Lloyd

John de Lancie

Alex Reeves

Anne Ramsay

TV Director

Ana Gasteyer

Claudia Hunter

Harold Perrineau

Monica Jones

June Carryl

Zeke

Bob Greene

Nikos

Lázaro Ramos

Max

Wagner Moura

Rafi

Cléa Simões

Serafina

Jonas Bloch

Pierre Laroche

Carlos Gregório

Melvin

Danni Suzuki

Yoko

Jerry Penacoli

Tom Kelly

• Fina TorresDirector · Executive Producer
• Vera BlasiWriter
• Alan PoulProducer
• Augusto CaséExecutive Producer
• Preta GilExecutive Producer
• Bronwen HughesExecutive Producer
• Thierry ArbogastDirector of Photography
• Luis BacalovOriginal Music Composer
• Leslie JonesEditor
• Ruy BritoCasting

Release date

September 22, 2000

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

R

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$10,194,274

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy

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