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Like Water for Chocolate (DVD)

Marco Leonardi (actor), Andres Garcia (actor) and Alfonso Arau (director)
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Synopsis

Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter instead, Tita takes revenge: by allowing her passions to surface through her cooking, she manipulates the emotions of all who eat her food -- with some very strange and magical results.

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Review

New York Times, 02/17/1993, p.C13, "...[Relies] enchantingly upon fate, magic and a taste for the supernatural....Prepare for a treat..."

Premiere, 09/01/1994, p.115, "...Proof that passion is a dish best served spicy hot..." - Recommended

Chicago Sun-Times, 04/02/1993, p.50, "...LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE creates its own intense world of passion and romance....It continues the tradition of magical realism that is central to modern Latin film and literature..."

Title Note

Laserdisc #2111 offers the original Spanish soundtrack with yellow English subtitles on the digital track and a dubbed English soundtrack on the analog track.

Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.

The best-selling book on which the film is based is a combination fiction and cookbook, as it includes the recipes for the foods Tita prepares in the story.

Director/producer Alfonsau Arau and screenwriter/novelist Laura Esquivel are husband and wife.

Other production companies: Arau Films International, Aviacsa, National Council for Cinema and the Arts, Mexican Institute of Cinema, National Tourist Development Fund, Government of the State of Coahuila, and the Cinema Development Fund.

Copyright Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.

Distributor Note

Like Water For Chocolate

Based on the best-selling book -- now experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nationwide! Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now, in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion. Her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire, or chronic pain -- while Tita and Pedro wait for the moment to fulfill their most hidden pleasures!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case

Product Notes

A sensuous comic fable of a young Mexican woman's tortured life and her main influences--her domineering mother, her forbidden lover, and the overwhelmingly sensual power of food and cooking. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel.

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5 out of 5 stars This movie made me very very hungry., February 26, 2008
By Depper
I loved this romantic drama--all that food!

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