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About
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.
Theatrical
May 28, 1993
Box Office
$21.7M
Budget
$2.0M
Return
10.9x
Theaters
1
Director
Writer
Producer
Music
Studio
Aviacsa, Cinevista
Original Title
Como agua para chocolate
Original Language
Spanish
Cast
Full credits →L
Lumi Cavazos
Tita
M
Marco Leonardi
Pedro Muzquiz
R
Regina Torné
Mamá Elena
M
Mario Iván Martínez
John Brown
A
Ada Carrasco
Nacha
Y
Yareli Arizmendi
Rosaura
C
Claudette Maillé
Gertrudis
F
Farnesio de Bernal
Cura
J
Joaquín Garrido
Sergeant Treviño
M
Margarita Isabel
Paquita Lobo
R
Rodolfo Arias
Juan Alejándrez
A
Andrés García Jr.
Alex Brown
A
Arcelia Ramírez
Bisnieta
R
Regino Herrera
Nicolás
D
David Ostrosky
Juan de la Garza
B
Brígida Alexander
Tía Mary