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...Family, another immigrant saga, in which any seasoned moviegoer can foretell the fate of every character the minute he or she appears, as well as the shamelessly sentimental ending.) But life according to life is usually not so predictable. So, when you run into something like The Perez Family, a movie that is full of lifelike bestartlements but still comes out kind of nice in the end, you have to treasure...
...Fidel Castro who sundered the marriage of Juan and Carmela Perez (Alfred Molina and Anjelica Huston). It's the political amnesty and boatlift of 1980 that promises to reunite them. It's another Perez, no relation, who gives them a new life utterly unlike the one they yearned for all those years. Her name is Dottie. She is a hooker-turned-sugar-cane-cutter, and Marisa Tomei plays her, most wonderfully, as a force of nature, a small hurricane gusting along on her own headlong agenda, ripping the roofs off everyone's expectations...
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Except for a few false notes in the beginning, "The Perez Family" is a superlative work, profoundly funny, erotic and insightful, with a trace of melancholy that wafts through the film like Juan's Proustian memories of a day at the beach in pre-Castro Cuba. I can't remember the last time a movie gave me this much pleasure. "The Perez Family" is a rapturous dream of a film...