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Post by MSTV on Dec 17, 2010 19:50:36 GMT -5
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Release Date: TBD Theaters: 3,100 Budget: 70,299,000 Genre: Drama Rated: PG-13 Descrption: A chronicle of the life of Oscar de Leon, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in Paterson, New Jersey who is obsessed with science fiction and fantasy novels and with falling in love, as well as the curse that has plagued his family for generations. The middle of the film centers on the lives of Oscar's runaway sister, Lola; his mother, Hypatia Belicia Cabral; and his grandfather, Abelard. Rife with footnotes, science fiction and fantasy references, comic book analogies, and various Spanish dialects, the novel is also a meditation on story-telling, the Dominican diaspora and identity, masculinity, and oppression. Most of the story is told by an apparently omniscient narrator who is eventually revealed to be Yunior de Las Casas, a college roommate of Oscar's who dated Lola. Stars: - (as Oscar), Luis Armand Garcia (as Yunior), - (as Lola), Constance Marie (as Belicia)
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