The Mambo Kings1992
The Mambo Kings (1992)
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Cast
as Cesar Castillo
as Nestor Castillo
as Lanna
as Dolores
as Desi Arnaz Sr.
as Evalina
as Himself
as Maria
as Miguel
as Carlo
as Fernando Perez
as Ismelda Perez
as Anna Maria
as Blanca
as Pablo
as Mrs Shannon
as Luis Fajardo
as Redhead on Bus
as Nando
as Killer
as Xavier
as Killer's Girlfriend
as Mike Wells
as Johnny Casanova
as Machito
as Empire MC
as Portly Woman
as Tracy Blair
as Young Cesar
as Young Nestor
as Creep
as Pablito
as Robertico
as Leticia
as Leticia
as Mulligan
as Mac
as Gina
as Stripper
as Kid with Basketball
as Amanda
as Poolside Patron
as Karen
as 2nd Girlfriend
as Mario's Girlfriend
as Club Patron
as Cleaning Lady
as 3rd Girlfriend
as Enchantment
as Ramon
as Bernardito
as Gina
as Secretary
as Mario
as Pito
as Johnny Bing
as Anita
as Willie
as Frankie Suarez
as Xavier
as Flaco
as Manny - The Mambo Kings Band
Critic Reviews for The Mambo Kings
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Glimcher's movie knows how to let down its hair and live for the night.
A spirited evocation of the mambo craze which swept post-war America, adapted from Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
It's as if there were a terrible telephone connection between the film's vivid sound track and its tepid romantic melodrama, to which the music is supposed to give style and substance.
"The Mambo Kings" is so pumped up with life it threatens to burst. It's beautifully filmed and flashily edited. It pulsates with rhythmic ecstasy. It throbs, it sweats, it pounds, it undulates.
A corny, eye-filling concoction of sound and strife, it recalls the heyday of a dance craze with the Technicolor splash of a 1950s musical.
In some ways this story is as old as the movies, but "The Mambo Kings" is so filled with energy, passion and heedless vitality that it seems new, anyway.
Audience Reviews for The Mambo Kings
Good movie!
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