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Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, William Hurt
  • Summary: A re-release of the 1985 drama starring William Hurt and Raul Julia as a gay window trimmer and a political activist locked together in South American prison cell.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Don't be too quick to jump on Hurt with complaints of old-fashioned gay stereotyping. Only with a development well into the movie will the audience realize the layers he brought to Molina's role-playing.
  2. Powerful, sensuous and thematically hokey transsexual adventure.
  3. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    80
    Some will find him (Hurt) mesmerizing, others artificially lowkeyed.
  4. One of the most intriguing prison dramas ever put on film.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. InesR.
    10
    Excellent movie based on the novel by Manuel Puig. Further study of the novel and film will reveal the great performance of Hurt, if we take into account the novel was written in 1976. The novel itself is an amazing insight of the characters and political and genre problems. Expand

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