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Como agua para chocolate = Like water for chocolate / un film de Alfonso Arau ; guión cinematographico, Laura Esquivel ; producciõn y direcciõn Alfonso Arau.
LIBRA VHS PN1997 .C68 1993
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Esquivel, Laura, 1950---Film adaptations.
- Esquivel, Laura.
- Esquivel, Laura, 1950-.
- Food in motion pictures.
- Love--Drama.
- Love.
- Families.
- Cooking, Mexican.
- Mexico.
- Cooking, Mexican--Drama.
- Families--Mexico--Drama.
- Marriage customs and rites--Mexico--Drama.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Mexico--Drama.
- Motion pictures, Mexican.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Romance films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Like water for chocolate
- Place of Publication:
- [Mexico City] : [Arau Films Internacional, S.A.], [1993] ; Toronto, Ont. :] C/FP Video, distributor, 1993.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion, her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire or chronic pain--while Tita and Pedro wait for the fulfillment of their most hidden desires.
- Participant:
- Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne, Ada Carrasco, Mario Ivan Martinez, Claudette Maille, Yareli Arizmendi.
- Credits:
- Photography, Emmanuel Lubezki, Steve Bernstein; scenario, Laura Esquivel; editors, Carlos Bolado, Francisco Chiu; music, Leo Brower.
- Notes:
- Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
- Video release of the motion picture.
- Based on the novel of the same title by Laura Esquivel.
- OCLC:
- 63636234
- Publisher Number:
- 11611 C/FP Video
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