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Somebody to Love

Actor(s): Rosie Perez, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Quinn, Michael de Lorenzo, Steve Buscemi
Director(s): Alexandre Rockwell
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Movie Release: 1994
DVD Release: 04/05/2005
Format: DVD
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins
Studio: Platinum Disc
Total Copies: 2
Genres: Drama, Showbiz Drama
See Also: Somebody to Love [DVD/CD], Somebody to Love [DVD/CD]

DVD Synopsis

Hollywood wannabes struggle to succeed while striving for relationships that are doomed to fail in this gloomy comedy-drama from writer-director Alexandre Rockwell. Rosie Perez stars as Mercedes, a transplanted New Yorker now living in East L.A. and taxi dancing at a seedy Hollywood strip joint. Mercedes has dreams of achieving stardom as an actress, but her lack of talent means that her goal will probably always elude her. Her travels take her into contact with several eccentric characters including a sage transvestite (Steve Buscemi), a showbiz insider (Sam Fuller), a savvy bartender (Quentin Tarantino), and her useless agent George (Stanley Tucci). Although he won't leave his wife, Mercedes worships her boyfriend Harry Harrelson (Harvey Keitel), once a prominent actor on a TV western whose glory days are long past. In the meantime, Ernesto (Michael DeLorenzo), a faithful customer and gravedigger, falls helplessly in love with Mercedes, but his passion is unrequited, even though he tattoos Mercedes' name across his chest. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Actors

Rosie Perez - Mercedes
Harvey Keitel - Harry Harrelson
Anthony Quinn - Emillio
Michael de Lorenzo - Ernesto
Steve Buscemi - Mickey

Member Movie Reviews

Liz F. (monkeygirl) from INDIANAPOLIS, IN wrote on 7/28/2009...

2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Okay. This movie totally sucked - I can't believe I wasted a credit on this!
Harvey Keitel was alright as always but I just could not cope with the whole story with Rosie Perez's character or the surrounding characters whatsoever. It's like the worst type of movie you could ever see - maybe it's not my style of movie but it is terrible like - really, really terrible alright - I can see why people would want to post this movie on here...

Quentin Tarantino only had a small cameo and his name shouldn't be above the title if he all he did was perform a short cameo as a bartender...