Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
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.
- Laura EsquivelNovel, Screenplay
- Alfonso ArauDirector
StatusReleased
Original LanguageSpanish
Original titleComo agua para chocolate
Budget$2,000,000.00
Revenue$21,744,201.00
Casts
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
Margarita Isabel
Paquita Lobo
Farnesio de Bernal
Cura
Sandra Arau
Esperanza Muzquiz
Andrés García Jr.
Alex Brown
Arcelia Ramírez
Great Granddaughter / Narrator (voice)