Like Water for Chocolate
Como agua para chocolate
1991, Film, 105 min, Drama, Romance, Spanish, Mexico, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Directed by Alfonso Arau
Cast
- Marco Leonardi as Pedro Muzquiz
- Lumi Cavazos as Tita
- Regina Torné as Mamá Elena
- Mario Iván Martínez as Doctor John Brown
- Ada Carrasco as Nacha
- Yareli Arizmendi as Rosaura
- Claudette Maillé as Gertrudis
- Pilar Aranda as Chencha
- Farnesio de Bernal as Cura
- Joaquín Garrido as Sargento Treviño
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