Eduardo Verástegui, Tammy Blanchard, Manny Perez, and Ali Landry
METANOIA FILMS, $14.98
In this People's Choice Award winner of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, rising soccer star, José, is on his way to sign the deal of his dreams when a tragic accident takes a young life too soon. In that instant his life takes a drastic turn.
Now working as a chef in his brother's restaurant, a deeply troubled José befriends waitress, Nina, who has just received the unwelcome news that she is pregnant. When she loses her job, José acts out of concern, at the expense of his own job, and the two set out on a day's adventure.
As the film follows José and Nina through the winding streets and bedlam of the city, to the wide open roads of the countryside and the peaceful calm of the shoreline, their stories unfurl in a similar line of passage. One is damaged by the past, the other afraid of the future; the two help each other make a pair of life-altering decisions that will carry them to a place of healing and redemption. A movie truly befitting if its name, beautiful.
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