Like Water for Chocolate
The youngest daughter in her family, the beautiful Tita is forbidden to marry her true love, Pedro because Tita's mother wanted her oldest daughter to get married first, and have Tita to stay and take care of her. As the years pass, unusual circumstances test the enduring love of Pedro and Tita.
25 July 1960, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
21 December 1968, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
17 May 1952, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
25 August 1957, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
11 November 1964, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
January 19, 2009
... becomes indigestible.
July 14, 2003
Good food metaphors and solid romantic story.
August 20, 2002
Celebrates in most unsual and impressive ways both the magic and the mystery of love.
January 02, 2011
Passionate tale of lost and regained love.
February 15, 2007
The food scenes in this Mexican fable are just as sumptuous and appetizing as those in Denmark's Oscar-winning Babette's Feast, excpet they have an extra-erotic and surreal appeal due to masterful cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki and Steve Bernstein
July 29, 2002
"sensual and constantly surprising"
January 05, 2004
A funny, touching, sumptuous, and incredibly romantic ode to the joys of love and food.
May 07, 2004
Atmospheric but watery romantic melodrama
