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The Perez Family
1995
- R1995 · Comedy drama · 1h 52m
The Perez Family is an American comedy film released in 1995 about a group of Cuban refugees in America who pretend to be a family. It stars Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri, and other well-known actors. It was based on the 1990 novel The Perez Family by Christine Bell.
May 12, 1995 · The Perez Family: Directed by Mira Nair. With Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri. 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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- Comedy, Romance, Drama
- Mira Nair
- 1995-05-12
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina) and...
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- Mira Nair
- R
- Marisa Tomei
May 12, 1995 · The Perez Family. Roger Ebert May 12, 1995. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Mira Nair 's "The Perez Family" opens with a Fellini-esque scene of elegantly dressed people promenading by a beach. Then the music turns sad as they begin to wade into the waves, and there's a cut to a Cuban prison.
The Perez Family. A Cuban plantation owner, imprisoned for 20 years, is finally released in 1980 and allowed to join the boat migration to Florida where he yearns to see his wife and daughter. Circumstances team him up with a fiery young woman, while his wife--who thinks he didn't make the last boat--finally lets herself fall in love with a new ...