Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
16/04/1992
Drama, Romance
1h 45m
- 73% (527 votes)
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In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
Overview
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
- Alfonso ArauDirector
- Laura EsquivelScreenplay
Original Title
Como agua para chocolate
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Budget
$2,000,000
Revenue
$21,744,201
Keywords
- jealousy
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- cooking
- marriage
- mexican revolution
- platonic love
- wedding
- single mother
- magic realism
- former lovers
- lovers separated
Top Billed Cast
Lumi Cavazos
Tita
Regina Torné
Elena
Ada Carrasco
Nacha
Marco Leonardi
Pedro Muzquiz
Mario Iván Martínez
Doctor John Brown
Claudette Maillé
Gertrudis
Yareli Arizmendi
Rosaura
Joaquín Garrido
Sergeant Treviño
Pilar Aranda
Chencha
Rodolfo Arias
Juan Alejándrez
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