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...hiding when Sands, a corrupt CIA agent, recruits the reclusive hero to sabotage an assassination plot against the president of Mexico, which has been conceived by the evil cartel kingpin, Barillo. But El Mariachi also has his own reasons for returning...
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...You don't want to miss Depp in this movie -- he knocks it out...creator of the Spy Kids films. In honor of Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in the West), Rodriguez ends the...by Willem Dafoe) from killing Mexico's El Presidente. That's...
Rolling Stone
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A guitar-picking gunslinger continues his cacophonous quest for revenge in director Robert Rodriguez's third and final El Mariachi bloodbath, a contemporary homage to Sergio Leone's 1960s spaghetti…
Hollywood.com
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Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez burst upon the independent scene with a miraculous $7000 (shooting cost) action film geared for the Mexican Spanish-language video market. Touted as the…
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Salma Hayek first scorched stateside cineplexes as the fiery border town bookseller who romances Antonio Banderas' vengeful "mariachi" in "Desperado" (1995). A favorite of the film’s renegade…
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A popular, diminutive and once mustachioed Mexican-American character lead and comic, Cheech Marin gained fame as half of Cheech and Chong, one of the top comedy acts of the 1970s and 80s and still a…
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Johnny Depp spent a decade on the fringes of Hollywood as a favorite of independent directors like Tim Burton and Lasse Hallstrom, until his unbridled originality and penchant for extreme…
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Though he emerged onto the film landscape loaded with talent and promise, actor and former amateur boxer Mickey Rourke squandered what could have been a long, prominent career, thanks to hubris and…
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A wiry, pale, sharp-featured veteran of experimental theater, Willem Dafoe soared to stardom and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing the Christ-like Sgt. Elias in the Academy…
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