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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $6.99 You Save: $3 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 17 February, 1993 DVD Release : 14 March, 2000 |
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Like Water for Chocolate description 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 suppr ... review details |
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| Movie is set in Mexico in the early 20th century. Teenage girl (Tita) and teenage boy (Pedro) fall in love. Girl is youngest daughter of Elena who was recently widowed. Mexican family tradition requires youngest daughter to care for Mother until death. Wicked Mother cruelly marries her eldest daughter to boy. Boy agrees to marriage to stay close to girl and all parties live under same roof. Girl is wonderful cook and conveys her love, her yearning, her anguish to Pedro in the meals she prepares that have mystical qualities over everyone that digests the food. 4-way tension grows under the watchful eye of Mother until near calamity when Boy and Tita's sister are sent off to live in Texas. Male actors were mere bystanders in the plot - the relationships between Mother, Daughters and the hired hands were wonderfully developed. On the other hand, I felt that the cinematography was second rate and the mystical "out-takes" were over the top for me. | |
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