Like Water for Chocolate

About Like Water for Chocolate

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.

Like Water for Chocolate is a 1992 romance film directed by Alfonso Arau. Lumi Cavazos stars as Tita, Marco Leonardi as Pedro Muzquiz, Regina Torné as Mamá Elena, and Mario Iván Martínez as John Brown.

It runs 105 minutes and was released in April 1992. Written by Laura Esquivel. It was produced by Aviacsa and Cinevista. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under single mother, magic realism, cooking, and former lovers. American members can watch it on fuboTV, Marquee TV Amazon Channel, and MGM+ Amazon Channel. It scores 7.3 out of 10 from 573 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

Gambling Lady, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Addams Family Values make useful companions to Like Water for Chocolate, all filed under jealousy and marriage.