Like Water for Chocolate
In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
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Budget
$2 000 000
Box office
$21 744 201
Director
Actors
Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez, Ada Carrasco, Yareli Arizmendi, Claudette Maillé, Pilar Aranda, Farnesio de Bernal, Joaquín Garrido
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Leo Brouwer
Artist
Audition
Claudia Becker, Felipe Fernandez
Editing
Carlos Bolado, Francisco Chili
Whole Team (31)
Whole Team (31)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The complete version of the film has a runtime of 144 minutes.
- A budding director from Texas spent a lot of time on set, even though he had no involvement with the film whatsoever. He was simply nearby, shooting his low-budget film (which had a budget of only $5,000). The director's name was Robert Rodriguez, and the film was the thriller 'Musician' (1993), which brought him fame.
- The film was shot on a ranch specially built for this purpose in the Mexican desert. The cast and crew spent 17 weeks there.
- When director Alfonso Arau was asked why he chose an Italian actor for the lead role, despite the fact that he didn't even speak Spanish, he replied that he couldn't find a man as handsome as Marco Leonardi anywhere in Mexico.
- As part of a campaign to promote the theme of exotic dishes serving as aphrodisiacs, 'Miramax' persuaded the owners of 30 Mexican restaurants to include dishes from the film on their menus and offered amateur cooks the opportunity to participate in a competition for the most seductive recipe (the prize was a trip to Mexico).
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