在这部灵魂大捕贴喜剧/剧情片中,李安的《饮食男女》被翻拍了两个版本，而黑人版就是这部《Soul Food》。跟饮食男女相似的地方都是三个女儿一台戏，也是全家星期天正式晚餐，只不过晚餐的灵魂是母亲，而且三代同堂，故事是从外孙的眼光叙述。美国黑人唱的是灵魂乐，美国黑人的饭自然也是soul food。黑奴时代，在地里干了一天活的黑人回家好好吃一顿，重储体力。他们边吃饭边讲故事，所以晚饭也是黑人文化传播站。星期天上教堂，之后全家人也要吃顿大餐。
Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart. Two of the sisters feud continuously: Teri is jealous of Maxine's marriage and irritated that everyone assumes her corporate salary is open to the rest of the family's uses. Maxine resents Teri's bossiness and insensitivity to family tradition. Bird, the youngest, newly married to an ex-con, accepts a favor from an old lover that leads to her husband's arrest. Mama Joe's grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table.
