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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Directed by Alfonso Arau
“In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 45m
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.
Cast
Lumi Cavazos
Tita
Marco Leonardi
Pedro Muzquiz
Regina Torné
Mamá Elena
Mario Iván Martínez
John Brown
Ada Carrasco
Nacha
Yareli Arizmendi
Rosaura
Claudette Maillé
Gertrudis
P
Pilar Aranda
Chencha
Farnesio de Bernal
Cura
Joaquín Garrido
Sergeant Treviño
Margarita Isabel
Paquita Lobo
S
Sandra Arau
Esperanza
Crew
- Director
- Alfonso Arau
- Screenplay
- Laura Esquivel
- Novel
- Laura Esquivel
- Director of Photography
- Steven Bernstein, Emmanuel Lubezki
- Original Music Composer
- Leo Brouwer
- Editor
- Carlos Bolado, Francisco Chili, Francisco Chiu
- Producer
- Alfonso Arau
Details
- Original title
- Como agua para chocolate
- Release date
- 1992-04-16
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- English, Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Aviacsa, Cinevista
- Budget
- $2,000,000
- Box office
- $21,744,201