Like Water for Chocolate

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  • Like Water for Chocolate -- Culinary magic is the main ingredient in this romantic melodrama set in 1910 revolutionary Mexico where a family's youngest daughter (Lumi Cavazos) cooks up all manner of mischievous dishes for her family when her beloved (Marco Leonardi) asks her hand but is made to marry her older sister (Yareli Arizmendi) instead. Mexican director Alfonso Arau cleverly blends comedy and tragedy into this beguiling period movie about repressed love sublimated into a passion for cooking. Subtitles. A few bedroom scenes, some nudity and minor violence. (A-III) (R) ( 1993 )




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    A-I -- general patronage;
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    Note: Some movies previously were designated A-IV. Older films with this classification should be regarded as classified L.

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