Parientes a la Fuerza
After George's mom dies, he's tasked with taking her ashes from Los Angeles to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he meets Carmen, a beautiful singer who inadvertently saves his life.
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Cast
Bárbara de Regil
Carmen Jurado
Chantal Andere
Leticia Sanz
Michel Duval
Andrés 'Andy' Cruz
Antonio de la Vega
Robert Ferguson
Roberta Damián
Paz Cruz
Verónica Montes
Sharpay
Macaria
Mamá Rosa
Luca Valentini
Rocco Cruz
Guy Ecker
George Cruz
Sofía Garza
Yuliana Hernández
Lisa Owen
Margarita Hernández
Salvador Zerboni
Juancho Hernández
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Dib
TMDB4 years ago
Recommended "Wonder-filled new binge-watch series for movie lovers"
Those who love movies in wide range of genres should try NBC.com series Parientes a La Fuerza (Family By Force). Set mostly in Los Angeles--"mi tierra"--this new series could be called "a Hollywood love story" (that is to say, appealing to movie lovers) enjoyable on so many levels. One fun game for perceptive viewers is spotting allusions to films "quoted" sometimes visually, thematically, or in dialogue translation of movie title or catch phrase--very fitting in story about a Hollywood screenwriter to show how entertainment permeates our thoughts, world views & beliefs.
Cleverly referenced classics are wide ranging; so far include Midnight Cowboy, Love Story, A Star is Born, Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, Road to Perdition, Ocean's 11, Cantinflas, Amores Perros, Shampoo, Ghost, Edward Scissorhands, 101 Dalmations, Proof of Life, Singin' in the Rain, Star Wars, Toy Story, Babe the Gallant Pig, Pretty Woman, Ugly Bety, Reina Del Sur, Dona Flor & Her Two Husbands, Black Orpheus, perhaps Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and of course, King Kong.
PALF explores in many ways the overall theme of Appearances and Authenticity. Main characters are deliberately not typical telenovela "young & impossibly glamourous", but feature more mature, realistic cast and a bit gawky & unpolished leading lady (who does however actually have a marvelous singing voice). Part of what attracted male leading actor to project might be emphasis on important theme in today's world. Fluent in three languages, not fitting common stereotypes of what is a Latin American, he starred in earlier work by the late Fernando Gaitan (whom he calls "a genius"), the creator of story about ugly duckling BETY LA FEA.
Dialogue in English is also used by characters in Beverly Hills and Hollywood.
While English subtitles are included for PALF (at least in portion shown on Youtube), I'm find...