Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Spanish — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- jealousy
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- cooking
- marriage
- mexican revolution
- platonic love
- wedding
- single mother
- magic realism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ada Carrasco — Nacha
- Yareli Arizmendi — Rosaura
- Claudette Maillé — Gertrudis
- Pilar Aranda — Chencha
- Farnesio de Bernal — Cura
- Joaquín Garrido — Sergeant Treviño
- Margarita Isabel — Paquita Lobo
- Sandra Arau — Esperanza
- Rodolfo Arias — Juan Alejándrez
- Andrés García Jr. — Alex Brown
- Arcelia Ramírez — Bisnieta
- Directed
- Alfonso Arau
- Written
- Laura Esquivel
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 560 ratings
- Studio
- Aviacsa, Cinevista
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
