Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jimmy Smits | ... | Nestor | |
Greta Scacchi | ... | Isabel | |
Vincent D'Onofrio | ... | Sam | |
Luis Avalos | ... | Victor Hernandez | |
Bertila Damas | ... | Estella Sanchez | |
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Raúl Dávila | ... | Reuben (as Raul Davila) |
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Bri Hathaway | ... | Marivi |
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Daniel Fern | ... | Jorge |
Earl Hindman | ... | Sergeant | |
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Kevin Duffis | ... | Jaime |
Victor Rivers | ... | Angel | |
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Lázaro Pérez | ... | Raul (as Lazaro Perez) |
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Angelina Estrada | ... | Olga Rodriquez |
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Julia Rodriquez Elliot | ... | Nancy Hernandez |
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Maria Vidal | ... | Michele |
Released after years as a political prisoner, a Cuban rejoins his wife and daughter in Miami.
Beautiful film that is skewered not only by the distracting editing, as your previous commentator mentions, but also by the confused message...anti-Castro Cubans in the USA are numerous, but we have learned - often from the movies, like Scarface or that excellent film about a gay Cuban poet who flees Cuba - that there are many ambiguities in that life - they are simplified and reduced here too much. Isabel is very passive and perhaps traumatised to an extent that is not really illuminated. it is a terrific idea that the Cuban husband is a mild-mannered type and that the American who saved her from the sea is hot - interesting to watch; in fact, also, it is the American (d'Onofrio) who makes the point of the film, that is so under-stated and ambivalent - that the Cuban husband must choose between politics and his family. the film is interesting and exasperatingly under-stated. this could have been developed into something far more intriguing - one other good point: it is fascinating to see Hispanic Miami in all its glamour and tawdriness, however. overall, the film is really underdeveloped.