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Como agua para chocolate (1992)

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Overview

Director:
Alfonso Arau
Writers:
Laura Esquivel (novel)
Laura Esquivel (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 February 1993 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
A feast for the senses!
Plot:
This movie is about how life used to be in Mexico. It is a love story between Pedro and Tita, and why... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 21 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
A deeply moving and sensuous tale of forbidden love... more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Marco Leonardi ... Pedro Muzquiz

Lumi Cavazos ... Tita
Regina Torné ... Mamá Elena
Mario Iván Martínez ... Doctor John Brown
Ada Carrasco ... Nacha

Yareli Arizmendi ... Rosaura
Claudette Maillé ... Gertrudis
Pilar Aranda ... Chencha
Farnesio de Bernal ... Cura

Joaquín Garrido ... Sargento Treviño
Rodolfo Arias ... Juan Alejándrez
Margarita Isabel ... Paquita Lobo
Sandra Arau ... Esperanza Muzquiz
Andrés García Jr. ... Alex Brown
Regino Herrera ... Nicolás
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Like Water for Chocolate
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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
Mexico
Language:
Spanish | English
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
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Trivia:
An aspiring filmmaker from Texas, who was not involved with the project, was able to spend time on set, because he was in town shooting a small budget ($5,000) full-length feature film for the Spanish home video market. That young filmmaker was Robert Rodriguez, and the film was El Mariachi, which would go on to become a hit at Sundance and launch his career. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Background music while Tita and Nacha are cooking in the kitchen tells the story of a car breakdown. more
Quotes:
Gertrudis: If you were still in love with Pedro, you wouldn't be marrying John. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Lone Gunmen: Like Water for Octane (#1.4)" (2001) more

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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
A deeply moving and sensuous tale of forbidden love..., 10 November 2003
Author: Heather (entrapment27) from California

I saw Como agua para chocolate partway through on the spanish channel and was immediately entranced by it's raw beauty and emotion.Thank God for those subtitles or I would have moved on. It's a tale of old traditions in Mexico and Tita, the youngest daughter, is the one doomed to follow them.The tradition is that the youngest is to stay with her mother and take care of her and remain single the rest of her life while her oldest sister gets to marry. For Tita though, it's too much for her to bear having fallen in love with Pedro, the one that her sister is to marry. Later he admits to Tita that he only married her sister to be near her.The rest of the story is for you to uncover.

I have never seen a more romantic scene in any movie where Gertrudis runs from the burning shower down the road and is swept into the arms of her lover and carried away. It's a stunningly sensual film that is deeply moving. If you haven't seen it, watch it with a lover.That only adds to the romance of the story!

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