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User Rating:
6.7/10   225 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Gordan Mihic (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
10 May 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Two friends, two worlds, one dream.
Plot:
This tale take place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too... more | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Better than most of the run-of-the-mill Hollywood stuff rolling into theaters every Friday, but I expected more from Paskaljevic more (2 total)

Cast

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Tom Conti ... Alonso

Miki Manojlovic ... Bayo
María Casares ... Alonso's Mother
Zorka Manojlovic ... Bayo's Mother

Sergej Trifunovic ... Lukas
José Ramón Rosario ... Panchito
Lanny Flaherty ... Guide
Mihalis Giannatos ... Greek Agent (as Michalis Yannatos)

Michael Willis ... Foreman
Predrag Ejdus ... Doctor
Chia-Ching Niu ... Chinese Girl
Andjela Stojkovic ... Savka
Lazar Kalmic ... Pepo
Ananda Ellis ... Afisi
John Norman Thomas ... Afisi's Brother
Jonathan Peck ... Sam
Yan Shi ... Chou

Anibal O. Lleras ... Filipino

Miou ... Japanese Girl
Ai Ya ... Chinese Grandmother
Shuain Hui ... Chinese Grandpa
Loi Can Li ... Chinese Musician
Loi Gao Li ... Chinese Musician
Robert Franz ... Flamenco Group
Dominique Lasaki ... Flamenco Group
Juan Rodríguez Vila ... Flamenco Group
Simon Lane ... Stanley (voice)
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Directed by
Goran Paskaljevic 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Gordan Mihic  writer

Produced by
Jean-Yves Asselin .... line producer
Helga Bähr .... producer
Johanna Baldwin .... co-producer
Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre .... producer
David Rose .... producer
Alejandro Springall .... line producer
Gabrielle Tana .... associate producer
 
Original Music by
Andrew Dickson 
 
Cinematography by
Giorgos Arvanitis 
 
Film Editing by
William Diver 
 
Art Direction by
Florian Langmaack 
Wolf Seesselberg 
 
Costume Design by
Charlotte Holdich 
 
Makeup Department
Françoise Chapuis-Asselin .... makeup artist
Judi Goodman .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Nina Bohlmann .... production manager germany
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jonathan Starch .... first assistant director (new york shoot)
Vladimir Torbica .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Paula Boram .... foley artist
Lucy Fawcett .... foley artist
François Groult .... sound
Christian Wangler .... sound
Aad Wirtz .... sound
Garry Fiferman .... sound re-recordist (uncredited)
 
Special Effects by
Udo A. Engel .... optical special effects
 
Visual Effects by
Pierre Biecher .... visual effects
 
Stunts
Manny Siverio .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Mike Bartlett .... Steadicam operator
Michael Fradianni .... electrician
Scott H. Ramsey .... gaffer: New York
Mark Schwentner .... best boy: New York
Cedomir Subotic .... key grip
 
Casting Department
Byron Crystal .... extras casting
 
Music Department
Mark Tucker .... score recording engineer
 
Other crew
Valerie Desjardins .... script supervisor
Richard Dooley .... location manager: Texas and Mexico
Segolene Fleury-Slimane .... production accountant
Ricardo M. Kaplan .... catering
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
I Ameriki kapoiou allou (Greece) (festival title)
L'Amérique des autres
Paradies, Brooklyn (Germany)
Tudja Amerika (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Serbo-Croatian title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and brief sexuality.
Runtime:
96 min
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Color:
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: At the end of the movie as the family are loading the car to drive to San Francisco, the track for the camera is visible in the reflection on the car door and side. more
Quotes:
Alonso: This is USA of America. This is the place where if you work hard, and you worry, you can be anything you want. more

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3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Better than most of the run-of-the-mill Hollywood stuff rolling into theaters every Friday, but I expected more from Paskaljevic, 12 June 2002
Author: Maksimilijan Bogosavljeviæ from Toronto, ON.

Decent work, but most of this is very safe, tried and tested material.

Tom Conti and Miki Manojlovic both do a good job but they can pretty much sleepwalk through this movie, so little is required of them. I really expected Paskaljevic, who's done much better work both before and after this movie, to pick more challenging material then this familiar and overused "coming to America, starting new life, oh it's tough but we'll try to make it after all" stuff for his American debut.

At the end of the day, the only thing that stands out is Sergej Trifunovic in his first performance on film, playing Bajo's (Miki Manojlovic) older son. Him and Bajo get some memorable exchanges. I was so glad that they made Trifunovic's character to be unscrupulous and oily, who in spite of, or rather because of that turns out to be the only one who succeeds in the new country. In a lesser Hollywood movie, I'm sure that stubborn old Bajo would in the end be the one enjoying American good life and his unmoral son would be getting what's coming to him.

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