Chocolat (2000)

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Studio: Miramax Films
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Dec 15, 2000
Running Time: 121 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
When Vianne, a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly rooted in tradition. Within days, Vianne opens a very unusual chocolate shop, filled with mouth-watering confections, across the square from the church. Her ability to perceive her customers' private desires and satisfy them with just the right confection coaxes the villagers to abandon themselves to temptation. The resident nobleman and self-appointed leader of the town are shocked that Vianne is tempting the local townspeople with her delicacies. Fearing it will ruin his town, he pits himself against Vianne and tries to forbid anyone from entering her shop, hoping to run her out of town forever. But when another outsider, the handsome Roux, arrives and joins forces with Vianne to liberate the town, a dramatic confrontation arises between those who prefer the ways of the past and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure.
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Vianne Rocher
Josephine Muscat
Armande Voizin
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Caroline Clairmont
Luc Clairmont
Jean-Marc Drou
Francoise Drou
Dedou Drou
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Stunningly beautiful Juliette Binoche is the chocolate maker who opens shop in a sleepy French village to awaken the towns people's desires, while becoming a thorn in the puritanical mayor's side.

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Things haven't changed much in this small town where everyone faithfully goes to mass each week and widows stay dressed in black for life. Enter Vianne (Binoche), a single mother with ancient Mayan chocolate recipes that awaken the villagers out of their "slumber" and revive their deepest… Continued

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December 20, 2000
Chocolat is a sinfully scrumptious bonbon about a nomadic single mom, Vianne (the delectable Juliette Binoche), who sweeps into a stubbornly quaint French village with her daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), and opens a chocolate shop. The time is the 1950s, and the tight-assed mayor, the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina, a subtly fragile villain), doesn't cotton to this candy femme tantalizing his villagers, during Lent yet. Director Lasse Hallstrom and screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs,… Continued