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Critic Angie Errigo
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...[a] captivating comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and recipes...

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Cast & Crew

Alfonso Arau
Director
Arcelia Ramírez
As Great Granddaughter / Narrator (voice)
Marco Leonardi
As Pedro Muzquiz
Lumi Cavazos
As Tita
Claudette Maillé
As Gertrudis
Regina Torné
As Elena

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Like Water for Chocolate (1992) is a romantic drama film set in Mexico during the early 0th century; It tells the story Of Tita about a young woman passionately in love with Pedro but forbidden by her controlling mother to marry him. because of family tradition. When Pedro marries Tita 's sister, Tita throws herself into cooking discovered she can transfer her emotions through food, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.Elena gives birth on the kitchen table after the tragic death Of her husband, who dies of heart attack after a stranger tells him structures with her affair and second daughter isn't his, which results in Elenan 's inability to have children anymore, and she dictates family tradition forbidding Tita from marriage but taking care of her until her death; Tita 's sisters, however, are allowed to marry, and Nacha teaches how to cook with infused emotions; Years later when Tita 's and Pedro's love ends up with them getting married, and they stay close to each other despite their sorrows; They express their emotion to food, which makes everyone eating it vomit, and during the wedding reception, they confess their feelings to each other., causing suspicion between them., Elena prevents Tita from seeing Pedro; At the reception, everyone eats wedding cake batter, and guests are overcome with sadness as they cry and vomit, while an anguished Elena retreats crying and looking at a photo of a well-dressed mulatto man hinting that the affair rumors were true; later, Nacha finds Tita dead, holding her husband's picture; Some time later, Rosaura becomes pregnant, but when Pedro brings Tia a bouquet of roses, Elena orders her to throw them away yet she creates a rose sauce, meal that creates sensual satisfaction in those who eat it; Gertrudis goes off with a soldier she is attracted t, leaving the shower house in flames.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Like Water for Chocolate include Life Is Beautiful, Forrest Gump, Dirty Dancing, Legends of the Fall, Before Sunrise, Edward Scissorhands.

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Like Water for Chocolate was released in theaters on May 28, 1993.