Product Details

• Actors: Andy Garcia, Kitty Aldridge, Guy Bertrand, Ricardo Sibelo, Lino Omoboni
• Directors: Maurice Hatton
• Writers: Maurice Hatton, Pablo Neruda
• Producers: Graham Easton, Verity Lambert
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Vidmark / Trimark
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6301180712
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,254 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A poet-president, November 26, 2000

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Cassio A Francisco (São Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Roulette [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The film opens with an odd scene. Carlos Quintas (Andy Garcia), a Latin-American president living in exile, takes the night underground while dreams of his beloved, Kate (Kitty Aldridge). It's a good beggining for a promising story. The plot is clever, focusing on the strange relations between the superpowers (Great Britain, for instance), and the dictatorship of Carlos Quintas' country (any resemblance with all latin-american dictatorships in the 70's and 80's is not purely coincidental). There's good action and some pleasant moments, such as the poetry of the president (The verses belong, in fact, to chilean poet Pablo Neruda). The solution, however, is easy, even romantic, turning the film into any other "Casablanca" style. That's the reason this movie won't take 5. It deserves 3 stars, excellent for a cheap production.