Film

Carmelita Tropicana

1994 · 27m · Comedy

IMDb

6.4

Performance artist, Carmelita Tropicana, lives in Manhattan's East Village, by Hamilton Fish Park. After a performance one night, she's mugged by a knife-wielding thief. The next day, in a clash with anti-abortion protesters in front of a woman's health clinic, Carmelita is arrested, along with her lively friend Orchida and her sort-of up-tight and wannabe-wealthy sister, Sophia. They're placed in a cell with another woman, who turns out to be last night's mugger, a down-and-out young woman named Cordelia (Dee). Relationships between each pair of women and among the four of them go through changes as the afternoon passes.

Alina Troyano

Carmelita Tropicana

Sophia Ramos

Sophia

John Lanzillotto

Righty

Anne Iobst

Dee

Livia Daza-Paris

Orchidia

• Ela TroyanoDirector · Writer
• Alina TroyanoWriter
• Freddie RodríguezEditor

Release date

February 1, 1994

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

27m

Genres

Comedy