The audience for this movie is almost predictable -- left-leaning yuppies who yearn for the passion they imagine all Latinos just ooze. Actually, in this movie they do ooze it, along with a white woman who works at the Latino restaurant. Boy, this director lays it on super-thick! The boxes are all ticked off in the heart-tug departments. Still, the editing was superb and everyone tried real hard (okay, too hard). If you want your heart thrown against a wall in a good way, go for it. If you're likely to be nauseated by earnest, overwrought dramatics -- maybe skip it. Either way, the Nina Simone song was worth the price alone -- and nicely integrated ( the movie in fact could have and maybe should have ended right there). Oh yeah -- and anyone who interprets this movie politically re. the abortion issue really needs to get a life.
