Casablanca

MOVIE: Casablanca (Don’t have it? Get it at Amazon or see more options)
RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 38 minutes
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1942
RATING: PG
STARRING: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

https://youtu.be/BkL9l7qovsE&t=21s

In what is widely considered one of the best movies ever made, Humphrey Bogart plays a man who must face the source of his heartbreak (Ingrid Bergman’s Ilsa Lund) and explore just how far one will go for love.

Alcohol plays a pivotal role in Casablanca, seeing as how Bogart’s bitter American ex-pat Rick Blaine runs a Moroccan nightclub — and French 75s are precisely the sort of cocktail he might have served.

You can give the vibrant setting of the movie an even bigger nod by making Moroccan chicken tagine with olives, preserved lemons and couscous.