Cristo Rey

2013
R
1h 36m

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5.8/10

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Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he's hired to protect.

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Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-... Read allSet in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he's hired to protect.Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he's hired to protect.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

198

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Official submission of Dominican Republic to the best foreign language film category of the 87th Academy Awards 2015.

Connections
Referenced in Premios Soberano (2014)

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Don't waste your time

It's a bad movie trying to be City of God, this time with a lot of politics and full of cliches. It will also give you a very wrong idea of what the current Dominican Republic is.

If it were set 50+ years ago it would make sense.