Mambo Cafe

An equal opportunity offender: Italian mobsters, WASPs and the assorted caucasian families that brusquely descend upon Frank’s (Paul Rodriguez) Puerto Rican restaurant all receive equally stereotypical treatment by writer-director Reuben Gonzalez. The Mamba Cafe is short on customers, and Frank has been holding the creditors at bay — his phone conversations run heavily to, "The check is in the mail." When a TV news report describes an Italian restaurant's business upswing after a notorious underworld leader is murdered on the premise, it occurs to Frank and his son Ricky (Rick Gonzalez) to make sure a local mobster is dining at their establishment when hi...