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Summary: worst of the worst
Comment: its one of the worst movies ive ever seen....bad plot and acting...i saw in a theatre years ago....my friend fell asleep during the movie..
very amateurish overall.
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Summary: Another story of male prostitution.
Comment: Contains partial nudity and sexual situations.
Carlos (Douglas Spain) has just arrived in Hollywood, California to be back with his family after a trip in Mexico. He wants to be an actor after having appeared in front of an audience on stage. His mother is distraught. She is not in her right mind, but is happy to see Carlos and always thought he was always like the moon. His no-good father, Pepe (Efrain Figueroa) sets him up to sell "Star Maps" by the roadside and also gets "Clients" for him. Pepe's girlfriend can't wait for Pepe's loco wife to die so they can be married. She tutors Carlos to make sure he understands how to prostitute, even old men and rich, bored women.
Can Carlos' hatred for his father get him out of this business?
Michael Pena is in the cast too.
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Summary: Touching , Heartbreaking story
Comment: To understand this film you should understand whats its like to be from a family like this. Themovie played out like a home movie for me. The first reviewer from Mexico, is typical in his narrow mindedness about how "chicanos" live. How do you clearly represent a culture? This young boy was not "abused" by his father, he was ABUSED by his father. THis happenes a lot, in Mexico and America. The use of Cantinflas was not to link the characters to their Mexican roots,it was used by the mentally ill Mother as her escape from her painful existence. I don't know how the first reviewer lives or if he ever visited LA,and i don't mean the tourist locations, the real Barrios with real Chicanos, but, some lives are aggresive and crude. Everything in this movie has substance. It is not sexy though. You care so much about Carlito, that it is stomach churning watching him be voilated. Sure life is not this difficult for everyone, but this is what its like when you are f-up by your parents, and unless you stop the cycle yourself you end up being f-ed by everyone else too. This is fact, ive seen it with my own eyes. Why esle do Street childern exist? Besides all,that the music rocks in this film and makes it unique. All the musical interludes are so appropriate for each seen. Miguel Arteta is genuis.
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Summary: The Typical Mexican Soap Opera -Movie Version
Comment: The story could have been good, the way it spilled to many other pointless stories is a waste of film and time.The actors are very good, and seem to be caught in a story line that was made to be too complicated and over dramatized, just like a soap opera with endless plots that go no where.
The writer/director failed to clearly represent the "chicano" (mexican-american) culture, failed to show us Carlos transition from living in mexico (which is extremly conservative) with his grandparents to LA, to a hispanic community in a different country.
The focus is on the exploitation of the stereotypical "mexican", the poor uneducated unsophisticated mexican boy "abused" by his own family, by the american starand prejudice and everyone elses priorities, which unable him to reach his dreams.
This movie tried to shake the audience being aggressive, crude, cliche and with no substance, it is a very poor and unispiring image on the mexican- americans and the americans themselves.
The use of the comedian "cantinflas" to link the characters to their mexican roots is poorly done, and has no relevance to the film nor the characters and what they purue for themselves which is the "american dream".
Poor use of very good actors, whos american dream will not be reached through this movie.
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Summary: Breaks the Latin Mold
Comment: Most reviewers have missed that Star Maps steps out from the Latino film routine of re-establishing the father as the rightful patriarch (Selena, La Familia, Rooster, ad nauseum). This is more than just another gay boy/prostitute movie; in narrative terms, it's a revolution.
