Chocolat (2000)

Runtime: 121 min
Country: UK/USA
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom

Writing credits (WGA)
Joanne Harris (novel)
Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay)

Produced by
Alan C. Blomquist .... executive producer
David Brown .... producer
Mark Cooper .... co-producer
Kit Golden .... producer
Leslie Holleran .... producer
Meryl Poster .... executive producer
Michelle Raimo .... co-executive producer
Bob Weinstein .... executive producer
Harvey Weinstein .... executive producer

Original Music by Rachel Portman

Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Cast (in credits order) verified as complete
Alfred Molina .... Comte De Reynaud
Carrie-Anne Moss .... Caroline Clairmont
Aurelien Parent Koenig .... Luc Clairmont
Antonio Gil-Martinez .... Jean-Marc Drou
Helene Cardona .... Francoise Drou
Harrison Pratt .... Dedou Drou
Gaelan Connell .... Didi Drou
Elisabeth Commelin .... Yvette Marceau
Ron Cook .... Alphonse Marceau
Guillaume Tardieu .... Baptiste Marceau
Hugh O'Conor .... Pere Henri
John Wood .... Guillaume Blerot
Lena Olin .... Josephine Muscat
Peter Stormare .... Serge Muscat
Leslie Caron .... Madame Audel
Juliette Binoche .... Vianne Rocher
Victoire Thivisol .... Anouk
Judi Dench .... Armande Voizin
Michele Gleizer .... Madame Rivet
Dominique MacAvoy .... Madame Pouget
Arnaud Adam .... George Rocher
Christianne Gadd .... Chitza
Johnny Depp .... Roux


Plot Summary for Chocolat

  

  1960, small town France. Vianne Rocher and her pre-teen daughter move into town and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town's small-minded mayor can't accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates manage to win over many townsfolk.

  

  Things get shaken up even more when a group of river drifters, led by Roux, stop into town (to the even greater distress of the mayor) and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she's been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and her equally freethinking landlord, Amande Voisin, get together with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn't approve of Amande's ways.

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Photogallery Photocall. 2000.