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Release Date
• USA: Dec 22, 2000
• UK: 2 Mar 2001
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 7, 2001
• R2: 26 Nov 2001
Budget USD 25,000,000
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Chocolat Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for a scene of sensuality and some violence.
Running Time
2 hours, 1 minute
Country UK, USA
Studio David Brown Productions
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Other Titles
• Chocolat
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Religion, Love, Devil, Racy, Culture Clash
Tagline: One Taste Is All It Takes
Plot: It is the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong North wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her young daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). Vianne is soon the talk of the town: an unwed mother who declines to go to church and opens up a chocolate shop in the midst of Lent. Her good-natured, honorable personality and psychic ability (she can predict what kind of sweets best suit each person, and magically cures each of them of their particular maladies) make her as irresistible as her delectable treats. However, Vianne and her daughter are resented by the conservative mayor, the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), and by the pious Caroline (Carrie-Anne Moss), who has disowned her own spirited mother (Judi Dench, who plays Vianne's landlady), refusing the elderly woman access to her beloved grandson.This touching fairy tale, based on the novel by Joanne Harris, was filmed on location in rural France. An intelligent, exquisitely filmed fable that deals with the idea of 20th Century paganism rising up against a closed-minded church and a persevering aristocracy, CHOCOLAT is enjoyable, romantic, and
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Lasse Hallström
The Cider House Rules, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Shipping News |
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 | Lena Olin
The Ninth Gate, Mystery Men, Queen of the Damned |
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 | Juliette Binoche
The English Patient, Three Colors: Blue, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
 | Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day |
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