The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Metacritic86/100
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
568 audience votes
Key crew
- Alfonso ArauDirector
- Laura EsquivelScreenplay
- Leo BrouwerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Lumi CavazosTita
- Marco LeonardiPedro Muzquiz
- Regina TornéMamá Elena
- Mario Iván MartínezJohn Brown
- Ada CarrascoNacha
- Yareli ArizmendiRosaura
- Claudette MailléGertrudis
- Pilar ArandaChencha
- Farnesio de BernalCura
- Joaquín GarridoSergeant Treviño
- Margarita IsabelPaquita Lobo
- Sandra ArauEsperanza
Stills
Movies like Like Water for Chocolate
Themes
jealousysibling relationshipbased on novel or bookcookingmarriagemexican revolutionplatonic loveweddingsingle mothermagic realismformer loverslovers separated
Romance Movies on Paramount+, Ranked
Like Water for Chocolate is #7 of 43
