The Mambo Kings
With a suitcase full of song, Hearts filled with passion, two brothers come to America in search of a dream.
With a suitcase full of song, Hearts filled with passion, two brother...
Drama, Music
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1992
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The Mambo Kings tells the story of César and Nestor Castillo, brothers and aspiring musicians who flee from Cuba to America in search of the American Dream.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
28 Feb 1992
Country:
FR, US
Languages:
Italian, English, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$6,742,168
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A spirited evocation of the mambo craze which swept post-war America, adapted from Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
It's as if there were a terrible telephone connection between the film's vivid sound track and its tepid romantic melodrama, to which the music is supposed to give style and substance.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
fresh:
"The Mambo Kings" is so pumped up with life it threatens to burst. It's beautifully filmed and flashily edited. It pulsates with rhythmic ecstasy. It throbs, it sweats, it pounds, it undulates.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A corny, eye-filling concoction of sound and strife, it recalls the heyday of a dance craze with the Technicolor splash of a 1950s musical.
– Rita Kempley,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
In some ways this story is as old as the movies, but "The Mambo Kings" is so filled with energy, passion and heedless vitality that it seems new, anyway.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000