Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Keanu Reeves | ... | Paul Sutton | |
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón | ... | Victoria Aragon (as Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) | |
Anthony Quinn | ... | Don Pedro Aragon | |
Giancarlo Giannini | ... | Alberto Aragon | |
Angélica Aragón | ... | Marie Jose Aragon (as Angelica Aragon) | |
Evangelina Elizondo | ... | Guadelupe Aragon | |
Freddy Rodríguez | ... | Pedro Aragon, Jr. (as Freddy Rodriguez) | |
Debra Messing | ... | Betty Sutton | |
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Febronio Covarrubias | ... | Jose Manuel |
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Roberto Huerta | ... | Jose Luis |
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Juan Jiménez | ... | Jose Marie (as Juan Jimenez) |
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Ismael Gallegos | ... | Jose's Musical Son |
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Alejandra Flores | ... | Consuelo |
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Gema Sandoval | ... | Maria |
Don Amendolia | ... | Father Coturri |
A young married US military soldier, Paul, returns home after World War II and meets a girl, Victoria, along the way. Victoria is pregnant and terrified of returning home to her Mexican family where her strict over protective father will surely disapprove of her out of wedlock pregnancy. Wanting to help, Paul offers to pose as her husband to calm things over until such time he is free to leave again but as they spend time together, they start falling in love with each other. However, Paul is still married and they have to hold themselves back before fate would intervene and tragedy would ensue and they would finally be together. Written by mahajanssen
Who are you and what have you done with the real Keanu Reaves? This guy's come a long ways since Bill & Ted.
I was floored by the cinematography, the story itself, and the way the family was portrayed, capturing the way so many of the wine-growing families of the day were in California--not to mention the traditions and mores that existed at the time.
Anthony Quinn also turns in a stellar performance, as always, as the eccentric grandfather that really isn't quite as odd as he'd like everyone to believe he is, spots Reeves for what he really is early in the story, and pretty much drives him to face what should be his destiny--but lets him think that he's making up his own mind. All in all, I have to say this flick is a major winner, despite the fact that there's no sex, no one is gunned down, no one is blown to bits, and there are no computer generated graphics of meteorites plowing into gasoline refineries. See it.