Like Water for Chocolate
by Alfonso Arau
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Actor: Ada Carrasco, Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Mario Iv?n Mart?nez, Regina Torn?Director: Alfonso Arau
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Cinematographer: Steven Bernstein
Producer: Alfonso Arau
Editor: Carlos Bolado
Producer: Emilia Arau
Producer: ?scar Castillo
Writer: Laura Esquivel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Like Water for Chocolate
Movie Review: defective DVDs - beware
Summary: 1 Stars
This DVD that Amazon is selling is defective. It won't play past the intro and just freezes in place. I had them replace the 1st one and the 2nd did the exact same thing, My guess is that they have aa defective lot. Amazon really needs to clean this up before they sell any more.
Summary of 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!Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You might want to rush off to a good Mexican restaurant afterward, but that's a good thing. --Tom Keogh
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