A filmed performance by writer-comedian Luis Caballero, interspersed with sketches, THE PUERTO RICAN MAMBO (NOT A MUSICAL) focuses on the stand-up comic's plight as a "little dark guy with an accent." Amusing and often incisive, Caballero, with another improvisational comedy veteran, Ben
Model, has created a funny film on a half-a-shoestring budget.
Filmed against a scrim, Caballero's performance posits the dilemma of the Puerto Rican as a vaguely defined ethnic group easily lost amid a welter of Hispanic groups including Mexicans, Dominicans, Panamanians and Hondurans. One of Caballero's running gags concerns the Western European appearance
of the performers a...
Released:
1992
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins