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This Week's Selection: "LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE"

This week's pick was suggested by Kim, a frequent visitor to this Romantic Movie site. "Like Water for Chocolate" is a beautiful, touching love story that will have you craving sweets - even if you don't normally have a sweet tooth. Based on the novel by Laura Esquivel, the film mixes magical overtones with passion and romance.

The story centers around Tita and Pedro, two lovers who are unable to marry because of Tita's family obligations. As the youngest daughter, Tita's place in life is to care for her elderly mother, Mama Elena. Tita's forbidden to marry her love, and instead, Mama Elena offers her older daughter to Pedro. He accepts, not out of love, but out of the desire to remain physically close to Tita. Heartbroken, Tita is forced to bake the wedding cake. Her cooking is done with such passion and despair, that the wedding guests are overcome with sadness as they taste the cake. From this, Tita discovers that her baking has strange effects on those who partake of it.

"Like Water for Chocolate" is a critically acclaimed example of Mexican storytelling at its finest.

Director: Alfonso Arau
Screenplay/Novel By: Laura Esquivel
Producers: Alfonso Arau
Cinematographer: Steven Bernstein and Emmanuel Lubezki
Film Editor: Carlos Bolado
Costume Designer: Carlos Brown
Original Music By: Leo Brouwer

Pedro - Marco Leonardi
Tita - Lumi Cavazos
Mama Elena - Regina Torne
Dr. Brown - Mario Ivan Martinez
Nacha - Ada Carrasco
Rosaura- Yareli Arizmendi
Gertrudis - Claudette Maille
Chencha - Pilar Aranda
Cura - Farnesio de Bernal

"Like Water for Chocolate" was released in 1992 and is also known as "Como Agua Para Chocolate." "Like Water for Chocolate" is rated R for sexuality.

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