Like Water for Chocolate
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Forbidden to marry the man she loves, a Mexican woman discovers she can transfer her intense emotions through her cooking, infecting everyone who eats her food.
Why watch: Arau's wife wrote the novel. Became the highest-grossing foreign film in U.S. history at the time.
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Cast
Lumi Cavazos as Tita
Marco Leonardi as Pedro Muzquiz
Regina Torné as Mamá Elena
Mario Iván Martínez as 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 Sergeant Treviño
Margarita Isabel as Paquita Lobo
Sandra Arau as Esperanza
Rodolfo Arias as Juan Alejándrez
Andrés García Jr. as Alex Brown
Arcelia Ramírez as Bisnieta
Crew
Alfonso Arau — Director
Laura Esquivel — Novel
Laura Esquivel — Screenplay
Alfonso Arau — Producer
Felipe Fernandez — Casting
Claudia Becker — Casting
Steven Bernstein — Director of Photography
Emmanuel Lubezki — Director of Photography
Carlos Bolado — Editor
Francisco Chili — Editor
Carlos Brown — Costume Design
Leo Brouwer — Original Music Composer
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