Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780793961047 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0793961041 Label: Fox Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment Release Date: January 27, 1998 Running Time: 86 minutes Sales Rank: 1054 Studio: Fox Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: July 23, 1997
Rating: - worst of the worst
its one of the worst movies ive ever seen....bad plot and acting...i saw in a theatre years ago....my friend fell asleep during the movie..
very amateurish overall.
Rating: - Another story of male prostitution.
Contains partial nudity and sexual situations.
Carlos (Douglas Spain) has just arrived in Hollywood, California to be back with his family after a trip in Mexico. He wants to be an actor after having appeared in front of an audience on stage. His mother is distraught. She is not in her right mind, but is happy to see Carlos and always thought he was always like the moon. His no-good father, Pepe (Efrain Figueroa) sets him up to sell "Star Maps" by the roadside and also gets "Clients" for him. Pepe's girlfriend can't wait for Pepe's loco wife to die so they can be married. She tutors Carlos ... Read More
Rating: - Touching , Heartbreaking story
To understand this film you should understand whats its like to be from a family like this. Themovie played out like a home movie for me. The first reviewer from Mexico, is typical in his narrow mindedness about how "chicanos" live. How do you clearly represent a culture? This young boy was not "abused" by his father, he was ABUSED by his father. THis happenes a lot, in Mexico and America. The use of Cantinflas was not to link the characters to their Mexican roots,it was used by the mentally ill Mother as her escape from her painful existence. I don't know how the first reviewer lives or if he ever ... Read More
Rating: - The Typical Mexican Soap Opera -Movie Version
The story could have been good, the way it spilled to many other pointless stories is a waste of film and time.
The actors are very good, and seem to be caught in a story line that was made to be too complicated and over dramatized, just like a soap opera with endless plots that go no where.
The writer/director failed to clearly represent the "chicano" (mexican-american) culture, failed to show us Carlos transition from living in mexico (which is extremly conservative) with his grandparents to LA, to a hispanic community in a different country.
Rating: - Breaks the Latin Mold
Most reviewers have missed that Star Maps steps out from the Latino film routine of re-establishing the father as the rightful patriarch (Selena, La Familia, Rooster, ad nauseum). This is more than just another gay boy/prostitute movie; in narrative terms, it's a revolution.
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