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Set under the brutally sunny skies of Depression-era Los Angeles, a tale of obsession that focuses on a city both exotic and vulgar, glamorous and raunchy--a place of heat and dust. Full of imports--palm trees from Egypt and people from everywhere in search of health and wealth, fame and fortune--L. A. is the city of first and last resort, where all dreams are supposed to come true. So it is for Arturo Bandini, the ambitious son of Italian immigrants who dreams of becoming a famous novelist and marrying a beautiful blonde, and Camilla Lopez, a Mexican who longs to marry a WASP and shed her last name. In a time when Anglo-Chicano relations hang by tattered threads, Bandini and Camilla collide with one another, fighting the city and themselves to make their dreams come true.
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| Production Status: |
Released |
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| Logline: |
An ambitious, young Italian man--ostracized in Colorado for his ethnicity--moves to L.A. in the late 1930s to become a novelist and find a blonde, and falls in love with a Mexican waitress. |
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| Genres: |
Drama and Romance |
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| Running Time: |
1 hr. 57 min. |
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| Release Date: |
March 10th, 2006 (limited) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
R for some sexuality, nudity and language. |
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| Distributors: |
Paramount Vantage
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| Production Co.: |
Ascendant Pictures, VIP Medienfonds Film & Entertainment (VIP Media Funds)
Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W Productions)
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| Studios: |
Paramount Vantage
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| Financiers: |
Co-Financier: Capitol Films, Rising Star
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$742,614 |
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| Filming Locations: |
South Africa
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| Produced in: |
United States |
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