Like Water for Chocolate
Original title: Como agua para chocolate
“In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.”
7.3(565)R19921h 45mES
Directed by Alfonso Arau
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.
jealousysibling relationshipbased on novel or bookcookingmarriagemexican revolutionplatonic loveweddingsingle mothermagic realismformer loverslovers separated
Budget $2.0MBox office $21.7M
