El Cantante

[Brian in Mesa]

El Cantante

Release Date: August 3, 2007
Studio: Picturehouse
Director: Leon Ichaso
Screenwriter: Todd Antony Bello, David Darmsteder, Leon Ichaso
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R (for drug use, pervasive language and some sexuality)
Website: El Cantante

Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Federico Castelluccio, Romi Dias, Vincent Laresca

Plot Summary: A biopic on Hector Lavoe, who was one of the biggest Spanish-language singers in the 1970s, but personal tragedy and a heroin addiction left him penniless and dying from complications from AIDS. Known as salsa's bad boy, he had a crystal-clear voice and an incomparable talent for improvisation.

 

[Mulli]

Won't be seeing this one.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Won't be seeing this one.

But then again, you haven't even seen 300 yet.

 

[DeAnna]

I wanna see it. Gosh, I remember when I was little he was *the biggest* thing in latin music. I remember he had a beautiful voice - and a very tragic life. Marc Anthony is a dead ringer for him.

 

[Mulli]

I wanna see it. Gosh, I remember when I was little he was *the biggest* thing in latin music. I remember he had a beautiful voice - and a very tragic life. Marc Anthony is a dead ringer for him.

Then he would creep me out. Marc Anthony creeps me out.