Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Original Title: Como agua para chocolate
Drama
Romance
7.3 (519 votes)
1h 45m
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.
Details
- Director
- Alfonso Arau
- Writer
- Laura Esquivel
- Original Language
- Spanish
- Budget
- $2,000,000
Cast
Ada Carrasco
Claudette Maillé
Joaquín Garrido
Lumi Cavazos
Marco Leonardi
Mario Iván Martínez
Pilar Aranda
Regina Torné
Rodolfo Arias
Yareli Arizmendi
Keywords
based on novel or book
cooking
former lovers
jealousy
lovers separated
magic realism
marriage
mexican cooking recipes
mexican revolution
platonic love
sibling relationship
single mother
wedding
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