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Like Water for Chocolate
MEANRANK
73/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 54, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 88. Critics average 87, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →According to family tradition, the youngest daughter must remain unmarried to care for her aging mother. This forces Tita to watch the man she loves marry her older sister. She discovers she can channel her powerful emotions into her cooking, infusing her food with her feelings of passion and longing, which then profoundly affect everyone who eats it.
Details
- Director
- Alfonso Arau
- Writer
- Laura Esquivel
- Based on
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
- Released
- 16 April 1992
- Country
- Mexico
- Language
- Spanish, English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $2.0M
- Box office
- $21.7M
- Awards
- 10 wins, 5 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 15 →10 wins from 15 nominations across 13 ceremonies
| Best Actor 1992 | — | Mario Iván Martínez | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Minor Role 1992 | — | Joaquín Garrido | Nominee |
| Best Actress 1992 | — | Lumi Cavazos | Nominee |
| Best Actress 1992 | — | Regina Torné | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Minor Role 1992 | — | Margarita Isabel | Winner |
| Best Cinematography 1992 | — | Emmanuel Lubezki | Winner |
| Best Director 1992 | — | Alfonso Arau | Winner |
| Best Editing 1992 | — | Carlos Bolado and Francisco Chiú | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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15 awards — Like Water for Chocolate
×| — | Regina Torné | Winner |
| — | Lumi Cavazos | Nominee |
| — | Claudette Maillé | Winner |
| — | Pilar Aranda | Nominee |
| — | Mario Iván Martínez | Winner |
| — | Margarita Isabel | Winner |
| — | Emmanuel Lubezki | Winner |
| — | Alfonso Arau | Winner |
| — | Como Agua Para Chocolate | Winner |
| — | Emilio Mendoza, Gonzalo Ceja and Ricardo Mendoza | Winner |
| — | Laura Esquivel | Winner |
| — | Marco Antonio Arteaga, Carlos Brown, Mauricio De Aguinaco and Denise Pizzini | Winner |
| — | Joaquín Garrido | Nominee |
| — | Carlos Bolado and Francisco Chiú | Nominee |
| — | Como Agua Para Chocolate | Nominee |