Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Como agua para chocolate
In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
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.
- Date of release
- 1992-04-16
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (572)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Alfonso Arau
Casting
- 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
- Pilar Aranda — Chencha
- Farnesio de Bernal — Cura
- Joaquín Garrido — Sergeant Treviño
- Margarita Isabel — Paquita Lobo
- Sandra Arau — Esperanza
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