Completed in 1994 but largely unseen until a home-video bow three years later, SOMEBODY TO LOVE is a curious romantic drama, awash in L.A. ambiance and consciously-concocted fringe characters.
Mercedes (Rosie Perez) is a Brooklyn girl fruitlessly pursuing a Hollywood screen career. By night she works as a taxi dancer, where she catches the eye of Ernesto (Michael DeLorenzo), a young laborer living in barrio squalor. He gently woos her, but Mercedes is already mistress to Harry (Harvey
Keitel), a married, ex-movie actor who suffers the ultimate career humiliation--being fired from a part in an ape suit. Harry declares that for $10,000, he and Mercedes could retur...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins