I Like It Like That
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| I Like It Like That | |
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| Directed by | Darnell Martin |
| Produced by | Ann Carli Victor De Jesus Wendy FInerman Lane Janger Stephen Lloyd Diana Phillips Tracy Leigh Vilar |
| Written by | Darnell Martin |
| Starring | Lauren Velez Jon Seda Griffin Dunne Jesse Borrego Rita Moreno Lisa Vidal |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 14, 1994 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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I Like It Like That (1994) is a comedy-drama film about trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican couple living in the poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood of the South Bronx. It was directed by Darnell Martin and starred Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Lisa Vidal, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego and Rita Moreno.
[edit] Plot
Lisette Linares (Velez) is a young mother of three children, married to Chino (Seda), a bicycle messenger. Although he is always reliable as the breadwinner of the family, Chino is having an affair with the neighborhood tramp, Magdalena (Vidal). One summer evening, a blackout sweeps the neighborhood, and Chino finds himself in jail after being arrested for looting.
Faced now with the reality of keeping her family together with the main breadwinner in jail, Lisette, with the encouragement of her transvestite brother Alexis/Alex (Borrego), decides to give her dream of becoming a print model a chance. As she happens to be in the right place at the right time, Lisette lands a job as the personal assistant to a major record label producer (Dunne). The record producer is trying to sign a major Latin music group (played by the real life group Barrio Boyz).
