Like Water for Chocolate

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.

Cast

Lumi Cavazos

as Tita

Marco Leonardi

as Pedro Muzquiz

Regina Torné

as Mamá Elena

Mario Iván Martínez

as John Brown

Ada Carrasco

as Nacha

Yareli Arizmendi

as Rosaura

Claudette Maillé

as Gertrudis

Pilar Aranda

as Chencha

Farnesio de Bernal

as Cura

Joaquín Garrido

as Sergeant Treviño

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