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La famille Perez

Original title: The Perez Family
  • 1995
  • R
  • 1h 53m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, and Anjelica Huston in La famille Perez (1995)
In 1980, USA opens to Cuban refugees. Once in Miami, Dorita tries to create a Perez "family" of 3 to get a sponsor. She wants Juan to be her "husband" - plus a "son" or "dad".
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In 1980, USA opens to Cuban refugees. Once in Miami, Dorita tries to create a Perez "family" of 3 to get a sponsor. She wants Juan to be her "husband" - plus a "son" or "dad".In 1980, USA opens to Cuban refugees. Once in Miami, Dorita tries to create a Perez "family" of 3 to get a sponsor. She wants Juan to be her "husband" - plus a "son" or "dad".In 1980, USA opens to Cuban refugees. Once in Miami, Dorita tries to create a Perez "family" of 3 to get a sponsor. She wants Juan to be her "husband" - plus a "son" or "dad".

  • Director
    • Mira Nair
  • Writers
    • Christine Bell
    • Robin Swicord
  • Stars
    • Marisa Tomei
    • Anjelica Huston
    • Alfred Molina
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    6.0/10
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    • Director
      • Mira Nair
    • Writers
      • Christine Bell
      • Robin Swicord
    • Stars
      • Marisa Tomei
      • Anjelica Huston
      • Alfred Molina
    • 21User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Marisa Tomei
    Marisa Tomei
    • Dorita Evita Perez
    Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston
    • Carmela Perez
    Alfred Molina
    Alfred Molina
    • Juan Raul Perez
    Chazz Palminteri
    Chazz Palminteri
    • Lt. John Pirelli
    Trini Alvarado
    Trini Alvarado
    • Teresa Perez
    Celia Cruz
    Celia Cruz
    • Luz Pat
    Ranjit Chowdhry
    Ranjit Chowdhry
    • Indian immigration official
    Diego Wallraff
    Diego Wallraff
    • Angel Diaz
    Ellen Cleghorne
    Ellen Cleghorne
    • Officer Rhoades
    Angela Lanza
    Angela Lanza
    • Flavia
    Jose Felipe Padron
    • Felipe Perez
    Lázaro Pérez
    • Armando 'Papi' Perez
    Bill Sage
    Bill Sage
    • Steve Steverino
    Vincent Gallo
    Vincent Gallo
    • Orlando
    Billy Hopkins
    • Father Aiden
    Ruben Rabasa
    Ruben Rabasa
    • Father Martinez
    Melissa Anne Acosta
    • Isabel
    Gustavo Laborie
    • Cuban official
    • Director
      • Mira Nair
    • Writers
      • Christine Bell
      • Robin Swicord
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    6SnoopyStyle

    wild Tomei

    Sugar cane worker Dorita Evita Perez (Marisa Tomei) is looking for a brighter Hollywood life. Political prisoner Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) is released with the Mariel boatlift. The two Cuban refugees of the same last name are mistakenly put together as husband and wife by Immigration officials. He has not seen his real wife Carmela Perez (Anjelica Huston) for 20 years who is in Miami with their daughter Teresa Perez (Trini Alvarado). Carmela's brother Angel Diaz comes looking for him and finds him with Dorita as his wife. Lt. John Pirelli (Chazz Palminteri) is investigating and gets close to Carmela. Dorita pushes Juan to stay together to get a sponsor. She mistakes Hollywood, Florida for Hollywood, California and is devastated when she's told that John Wayne is dead. After collecting more members, the new Perez family sets off to find their way.

    Marisa Tomei is effervescent and brash. This may work better if it stayed only with her and Molina. I'm less sure about his family in America. They seem to be trying to be comedic which doesn't always work. I'm not sure about what Angel is doing. That side of the movie complicates the romance. The love story gets twisted into a pretzel. I can't help but wonder if it would be infinitely sweeter to have Juan find Teresa at the end of the movie with a daughter he never knew existed. Instead, it's all complicated by Angel and diverting romances.
    Chrysanthepop

    Meet The Perez

    Mira Nair's take on comedy is quite impressive. The director is known for her more intense and dramatic films but here she proves that she can direct a comedy. Though 'The Perez Family' isn't without its share of flaws, it is overall a funny movie with loads of laugh-out-loud moments. The film is about a group of Cuban immigrants who move to the states, one of them is in search of freedom and another in search of his family whom he hasn't seen for 20 years. While the film is essentially a comedy, Nair does tackle some issues that represent the darkness of an immigrant's life.

    The score is energetic and the cinematography is vivacious. The pace tends to drag in some places and near the end becomes a tad too intense. Perhaps Nair could have balanced it off by including more comic punches. The dialogues are wonderful, especially the ones between Tomei and Molina.

    Marisa Tomei has never looked hotter. She is both sensual and hilarious and very convincing as a Cuban wild flower. She was also excellent in the more intense scenes. Angelica Huston too displays a sophisticated sensuality and shows that she too can be funny on screen. Alfred Molina is good but not as effective as his leading ladies. Chazz Palminteri is charming. The late Celia Cruz makes a pleasantly awkward appearance.

    'The Perez Family' is quite a charming and funny romantic comedy that gives us a glimpse of the hardships of immigrant life but also lots to laugh about. Would like to see Nair make more comedy.
    7vertigo_14

    Good Cast Helps This Pleasant Love Story (spoilers).

    Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei head up the cast of this pleasant romantic comedy about a former political prisoner and a former sugar cane farmer who leave Cuba for the United States in 1980 on what I presume to be the famous Marielle Boat Lift that brought Cuban exiles to the states (although the boat looks much smaller than it did in 'Before Night Falls'). Having the same last name, the man and the bouyant young woman pose as husband and wife (and later members of an extended Perez family) in order to gain a sponsor who will give them a place to stay and some kind of work.

    But, Juan (Molina) is expecting to be reunited with his wife (Angelica Houston) and grown daughter (Trini Alvarado). His traitor brother-in-law, who was responsible for the twenty years he spent in that dreadful prison, comes to the dock looking for Juan, but is told by the guard that Juan and his wife already passed through. So, Angel (the brother-in-law) is under the assumption that Juan remarried and broke his sister's heart, and now he tells his sister to forget about him. Juan, in the meantime, has no idea about the misunderstanding, but longs to be reunited with his family.

    However, along the way, Juan and Dorita (Marisa Tomei in a fantastic performance) build a friendship, and eventually, fall in love for each other. And his wife (Houston) similarly finds a relationship with a charming cop (Chez Palminterri). Juan and his wife, after so many years apart and finding satisfaction and closeness in relationship, they find it hard to rekindle what they once had.

    It isn't that they're being disloyal to each other. Despite being married, they had been away from each for more than twenty years and could not just pick up where they left off.

    It is a pleasant romantic comedy and has some very funny moments as well as an excellent cast, particularly Marisa Tomei, who pretty much drives the whole movie as the young Cuban female who tries to create a close family (with others similarly named Perez) and searching out something like an "American Dream."
    8generic-2

    Marisa Tomei is an absolute delight and the movie is good too

    We didn't expect much from this rental that we had never heard of but ended up being delighted. Marisa Tomei was an absolute delight. Angelica Houston was different than we have ever seen her and looked very attractive. Very, very good movie with a little bit of everything you could want. Marisa Tomei was wonderful.
    Guy143

    A movie to die for!!!

    I can't begin to describe the truly exotic and sensual feeling behind "The Perez Family." The direction was at it's best starring top stars like Marisa Tomei, Angelica Huston, & Alfred Molina, and a great supporting cast including Chazz Palminteri, Trini Alvarado, & Celia Cruz.

    It's the story on a family trying to move to the land of the free, America, in the 1980's. But upon departing, the father is arrested and must let the family go. Years later when he is released, he climbs on board and heads to the U.S. hoping to find his family. On the way there he meets a sexy woman that slowly changes his life. Upon arrival in the states, Miami seems to be a much bigger place than he imagined and hopes of finding his family seems a lot harder than expected. It's romantic, sensual, and funny & if you believe in fairy tales, this movie is made for you. Go ask your local video store if they carry it and if its in there, get it! You're going to love it, trust me!

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    • Trivia
      None of the main cast is actually of Latin Descent.
    • Goofs
      When Dottie goes to make out with the security guard at the bar, the first wide shot shows her without her orange pants on, just black panties. In the next shot, she is wearing her pants, then the security guard precedes to pull them down, showing the black panties previously shown from a far distance in the first wide shot.
    • Quotes

      Dorita Evita Perez: [on why she wants to go to America] I love Elvis Presley, I dig the rock and roll, I want to FUCK... John Wayne

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Crimson Tide/A Little Princess/The Perez Family/The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill/Swimming with Sharks (1995)

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • May 12, 1995 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Perez Family
    • Filming locations
      • Mar Chiquita, Puerto Rico
    • Production companies
      • Sprockets Music
      • Sprockets Music
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $11,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $2,832,826
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,127,645
      • May 14, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,832,826
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    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 53 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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