Director
Mira Nair
Composer
Zbigniew Preisner
Cast
Marisa Tomei, Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina
Edition 1995
113'
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1995
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Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Dialogue:
English
This film follows the lives of a group of Cuban immigrants in the United States. After twenty years of captivity in a Cuban jail, Juan Raul Perez hopes to return to his wife Carmela and his now grown-up daughter Teresa in Miami. Now that freedom finally has become reality, he wants to rebuild his life and family. However, on the boat over, Juan meets Dottie Perez, a flamboyant ex-prostitute who dreams of rock and roll and John Wayne. When they arrive in the United States, an immigration official erroneously lists Juan and Dottie as married...
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Credits
Directors
Mira Nair
Composers
Zbigniew Preisner
Cast
Marisa Tomei, Anjelica Huston, Alfred Molina
Scenario
Robin Swicord
Director of Photography
Stuart Dryburgh
Editors
Robert Estrin
Producers
Michael Nozik
More info
Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"The Perez Family", Christine Bell
Year
1995