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Like Water for Chocolate

Cast

Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torn�, Ada Carrasco View All

Crew

Alfonso Ar�u (Director), Laura Esquivel (Screenplay) View All

Release: Apr. 16th, 1992

Runtime: 1 hour, 45 minutes

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.

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mark f
It also pretty much assures you that Mexicans believe in ghosts, and I'm not all that sure that they don't believe in them any more than any culture, and I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with their "official religion".

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Takoma11
When Tita falls in love with the handsome Pedro (Marco Leonardi), her mother denies Pedro's request for Tita's hand.