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The Mambo Kings Details

1992 Certificate 15
  • Rated:
  • 60
  • from 26 members

Two ambitious Cuban brothers come to New York to make a name for themselves as musicians during the mambo craze of the 1950's. By day they work hard at manual labour, at night they are transformed; but the pressures of fame threaten to drive them apart. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song (Beautiful Maria of My Soul). Read more

Starring Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Desi Arnaz Jr., Maruschka Detmers
Director Arne Glimcher
Genres Drama

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The Mambo Kings

Two ambitious Cuban brothers come to New York to make a name for themselves as musicians during the mambo craze of the 1950's. By day they work hard at manual labour, at night they are transformed; but the pressures of fame threaten to drive them apart. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song (Beautiful Maria of My Soul).

Starring Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Desi Arnaz Jr., Maruschka Detmers, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente
Director Arne Glimcher
Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 39 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: not available
Production year: 1992
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Antonio Banderas made the jump from Spanish star to international hunk with this, his first big English-language movie, a musical drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Oscar Hijuelos. Banderas and Armand Assante, the bad guy in Judge Dredd, star as two Cuban musicians who arrive in postwar America seeking love, fame and fortune. The film positively sizzles when the music gets going, and the mambo itself is as much a character in the movie as the actors. Director Arne Glimcher — this was his directorial debut — went on to make the Sean Connery thriller Just Cause.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • A spirited evocation of the mambo craze which swept post-war America, adapted from Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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      Two ambitious Cuban brothers come to New York to make a name for themselves as musicians during the mambo craze of the 1950's. By day they work hard at manual labour, at night they are transformed; but the pressures of fame threaten to drive them apart. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song (...