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Title: Passionada (2002)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jason Isaacs | ... | Charles Beck | |
| Sofia Milos | ... | Celia Amonte | |
| Emmy Rossum | ... | Vicky Amonte | |
| Theresa Russell | ... | Lois Vargas | |
| Lupe Ontiveros | ... | Angelica Amonte | |
| Seymour Cassel | ... | Daniel Vargas | |
| Chris Tardio | ... | Gianni Martinez | |
| Benjamin Mouton | ... | Frankie the Pit Boss | |
| Robert Montano | ... | Father Emmanuel | |
| Luis Colina | ... | Anthony | |
| Bill Burr | ... | Blackjack Player | |
| Russ Vigilante | ... | Roberto | |
| Anthero Montenegro | ... | Joseph Amonte | |
| George Gund | ... | Fisherman | |
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Shawn FitzGerald | ... | Blackjack Dealer |
Passionada is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband, a fisherman, died at sea. The widow's naive teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man who's new in town. The widow falls for the Brit, a professional gambler who pretends to be in the fishing business. Written by Anonymous
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Charlie (Jason Isaac) is a card player of dubious luck, who lives in a cheap motel and is going nowhere until he meets and woos a conservative and beautiful Portugese seamstress/singer, Celia, played by the stunning Sofia Milos (CSI: Miami). Celia has a meddlesome teenage daughter, Vickie (Emmy Rossum) who wants to learn how to count cards by blackmailing Charlie into teaching her, but he is banned from all casinos. Vickie wants to hook her mother up with a new man but her computer dating schemes fail. In the meanwhile, Charlie's only friends, a wealthy couple, Lois (Theresa Russell) and Danny Vargas (Seymore Cassel), lend him their Jaguar XKE, sailboat, and home to impress the widow that he is a successful and wealthy entrepreneur. It sounds like a typical dating game setup except for the background settings of the Portugese fishing community, mouthwatering seafood cooking, and casino gaming that flesh out the story. Love, fish, and lying to make points with the mother, Charlie learns how to turn his life around the hard way through his deceptions which backfire, and Sofia tries to forget the husband whose death has left her prematurely widowed yet not dead from the neck down.
Through the interferences of Vickie, lots of fish as unlikely props, and a sappy storyline, this is an entertaining film which allows the wonderful character actor Jason Isaac to show another side to his already powerful acting chops. Emmy Rossum is adequately irritating in a pre-Phantom of the Opera role which suggests her growth from typical teen to ingénue in training. However, it is the vibrant Sofia Milos as Celia who gives a rounded performance from cloistered widow to sensuous nightclub chanteuse that surprises and delights.
This is a small story about love in all its forms and definitions. Thoroughly enjoyable and wonderful for a date nite or simply rainy day, Passionada entertains.