La Cenicienta Boricua

Nov 12, 2015

1h 50m

★ 2.0

Overview

The famous fairy tale of Cinderella is adapted to our times, considering as background the present situation of Puerto Rican coffee growers. The story is set in Lares, Puerto Rico, at a time close to Christmas. Miosotis’s father has died and Ava Rice, his widow, wants to sell his family coffee farm to a foreign company, whose monopoly on the island continues to displace the country's coffee growers.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

XCL-TV

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Cast

Miosotis

Maria Coral

Ava Rice

Suzette Bacó

Hado padrino

Braulio Castillo Jr.

Don Cipriano

Jerry Segarra

Custodio

Francisco Capó

Videa

Yezmín Luzzed

Barbie

Mariana Quiles

Grace

Yadiliz Barbosa

Apolo

Rainier Quintana

Dorito

Raymond Rassi

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