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Luminarias
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Evelina Fernandez
Directed by: Jose Luis Valenzuela
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 5, 2000
DVD: February 26, 2002
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and sexuality
Starring Scott Bakula, Alma Beltran, Mary Beltran, and Robert Beltran
Four women regularly get-together at an East Los Angeles restaurant called Luminarias to share information about their careers, love, family, and sex.
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The movie is very small in scale, but the performances are appealing and Fernandez's screenplay casts an interesting light on the main characters' self-images as Latina women.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Consistently entertaining and offers some sharp observations of the Latino experience.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Hollis Chacona
With wonderful music, interesting characters, and lots of laughter, this picture feels much bigger than it really is.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
There are so many small, satisfying moments when the women are allowed to be real that it's a jolt each time they become superficial symbols.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Chris Gore
Not for me, and in spite of that, I found it really funny, smart and sweet. I enjoyed it.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
An occasionally charming, sometimes amateurish film .
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The lawyer is marvelously played by Evelina Fernandez, who wrote the screenplay based on her play.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Edward Crouse
Chock-full of feisty-frank go-girl sextalk speculating on white guys' underplayable size.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly David Chute
There are surprising grace notes in all the performances, and familiar, friendly faces pop up in supporting roles.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Comes off as nothing more than a TV soap opera, with overwrought acting, simplistic dialogue and a generic plot.
Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
A stiff, clumsy, amateurish mess, one of those ethnically righteous movies likely to be endured exclusively by its story's demographic.
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
It is a traffic jam of broken hearts, fluxing racial identities and deplorable outfits that has everything but a salsa overhaul of "I Will Survive."
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