Like Water for Chocolate

Como agua para chocolate (1992)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1992-04-16

Country

Mexico

Production

Aviacsa, Cinevista

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$21 744 201

Website

http://www.miramax.com/movie/like-water-for-chocolate/

Director

Alfonso Arau

Actors

Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Ada Carrasco, Mario Iván Martínez, Claudette Maillé, Yareli Arizmendi, Joaquín Garrido, Pilar Aranda, Rodolfo Arias
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Alfonso Arau

Operator

Emmanuel Lubezki

Composer

Leo Brouwer

Artist

Audition

Claudia Becker, Felipe Fernandez

Editing

Carlos Bolado, Francisco Chili
All team (32)

• 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).