Word: milagros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milagro Beanfield...
This spring three films with Hispanic themes opened. The Milagro Beanfield War, Robert Redford's $30 million social fable, may never make its money back. But Ramon Menendez's Stand and Deliver, though no blockbuster, is already showing a profit. And Salsa, a cheap blend of West Side Story and Dirty Dancing, made some quick money. Next, Puerto Rican-born Raul Julia, one of the few Hispanics to work regularly and rewardingly on stage and screen, stars with Sonia Braga (Brazil) and Richard Dreyfuss (Brooklyn) in Moon over Parador, a satire about South America. Then Julia will play a Salvadoran...
...Hispanic Americans, living proof that with the requisite amount of what Escalante calls ganas (desire), they can lift themselves out of the barrio and become teachers, mathematicians, movie stars -- anything they want. Olmos is "very inspirational, a real hero to the Hispanic community," observes Producer Moctesuma Esparza (The Milagro Beanfield War, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez). "He not only has star quality, but belief and drive...
...actors hold their attitudes a little too long. The resort's temptation for the villagers -- the prosperity it may bring to a distressed region -- is a little too easily shrugged off. After a while even those sunsets numb the unenthralled viewer; he wants to head for Vegas. Milagro is kind to its characters; it works as hard to discover subtleties in their stereotypes as it does to unearth gorgeous new colors in the Southwest palette. But the film remains genially above them, like an Olympian social worker. This humanist western is just too darn nice. It needs to be more...
Robert Redford directs The Milagro Beanfield War, a humanist parable with all the right motives and a few of the wrong moves...