Word: maruschka
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Banderas and Assante make a spectacular team. They are eminently credible as brothers, and along with the rest of the cast (which includes Cathy Moriarty and Maruschka Detmers), surpass Hijuelos' original creations...
...they must play. The cheerfulness of Cesar's servitude is a big part of his and the movie's charm. As brought to impossibly glamorous life in Assante's performance, Cesar has fun doing almost anything; he can dance a sinfully erotic tango with Nestor's wife-to-be (Maruschka Detmers) and not consider it a promise or a poach. He sees life, in its painful as well as its ecstatic moments, as a wouldn't-miss-it party. And so is The Mambo Kings: an old-fashioned, music-and-dance, brothers-and- lovers fiesta...
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