Reminiscent of Pedro Almodovar's roughest early work -- circa PEPI, LUCI, BOM AND OTHER GIRLS ON THE HEAP -- this melodramatic, supremely self-aware sex farce is driven by a gaudy energy that produces such visual equations as loss of virginity and the
rupture of a pinata. The Latin boys are Justin (Irwin Ossa), who's in love with Angel (John Bryant Davila), the straight cousin from Chicago who's come to stay with Justin's family in Queens, and Braulio (Alexis Artiles), who's smitten with callous, swaggering stud muffin Carlos (Mike Ruiz). All
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Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins