Like Water for Chocolate (film)

Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
Directed by	Alfonso Arau
Screenplay by	Laura Esquivel
Based on	Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Produced by	Alfonso Arau
Starring	Marco Leonardi; Lumi Cavazos; Regina Torné; Ada Carrasco; Mario Iván Martínez; Yareli Arizmendi;
Cinematography	Steven Bernstein; Emmanuel Lubezki
Edited by	Carlos Bolado; Francisco Chiu
Music by	Leo Brouwer
Distributed by	Miramax
Release date	16 April 1992;
Running time	105 minutes (USA), 123 minutes (Mexico), 143 minutes (original cut)
Country	Mexico
Languages	Spanish; English
Budget	$2 million (USA)
Box office	$21.6 million (USA)

Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a 1992 Mexican romantic drama film in the style of magical realism based on the debut novel of the same name published in 1989 by Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel.^[2] It earned ten Ariel Awards including the Best Picture and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time.^[3]^[4] The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[5]^[6]

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^ "'Chocolate' meanders towards B.O. record". Daily Variety. April 12, 1994. p. 23.
^ Neibylski, Dianna C (1998). "Heartburn, Humor and Hyperbole in Like Water for Chocolate". In Hengen, Shannon (ed.). Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and subtext. Routledge. p. 189. ISBN 978-90-5699-539-3..
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