Immigration Tango
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  • Summary: When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well until the stress of keeping up appearances to their family members and a savvy immigration enforcement agent eventually begins to take its toll. (Roadside Attractions)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 7 out of 11
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    Apr 28, 2011
    50
    Neither the comedy nor the romance is strong enough in Immigration Tango to offer any improvement on Peter Weir's similar, and better, 1990 film "Green Card."
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    Feb 15, 2011
    30
    Less forgivable is the fact that this is a film in which characters are flung out of character solely for cheap laughs and rarely actually listen or talk to one another.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Feb 17, 2011
    30
    It's not outlandish enough to work as slapstick, not intelligent enough to make a comment on the fickleness of immigration policy.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    Feb 17, 2011
    30
    Eventually, Immigration Tango throws away what little credibility it has in going for a finish of total improbability and silliness.

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  1. godardfan
    10
    With all due respect to Schelb and the others who have reviewed this film, we must assume that they have missed the point entirely. When Immigration Tango begins, it does appear as a standard, though artfully written romantic-comedy. Once the first layer of this delicious onion is peeled away however, one begins to see the emergence of an exploration of man's fight against god in a battle for self-determination. What is particularly striking is the film wide metaphor of the moped as a vehicle for the soul, at one point literally carrying Avery Sommers, (who deserves an academy nod for her nuanced portrayal of Ms. Ravencourt) as the human conscience manifest. Another layer is peeled and we see Elena as not an object of physical desire, but a totem representing choice itself if only it can be grasped by Mike and therefore by us all. Kudos to the team that brought us IT! I sincerely hope that they bring us IT2 soon to see if we can hold on to our free will, or if it will be stripped away as a cruel illusion.… Expand

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