I Like It Like That

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I Like It Like That

Directed by	Darnell Martin
Produced by	Ann Carli Victor De Jesus Wendy FInerman Lane Janger Stephen Lloyd Diana Phillips Tracy Leigh Vilar
Written by	Darnell Martin
Starring	Lauren Velez Jon Seda Griffin Dunne Jesse Borrego Rita Moreno Lisa Vidal
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	October 14, 1994
Running time	104 min
Language	English
IMDb profile

I Like It Like That (1994) is a film about trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican couple living in the poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood of the South Bronx. It was directed by Darnell Martin and starred Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego and Rita Moreno.

[edit] Plot

Lisette Linares (Velez) is a young mother of three children, who is married to Chino (Seda), a bicycle messenger who although is always reliable as the breadwinner of the family, he leads an unfaithful relationship with his wife by discretely having an affair with the neighborhood tramp, Magdalena (Vidal). On a summer evening, a blackout sweeps the neighborhood, and Chino finds himself in jail after being arrested for looting.

Faced now with the reality of keeping her family together with the main breadwinner in jail, Lisette, with the encouragement of her transvestite brother Alexis/Alex (Borrego), decides to give her dream of becoming a print model a chance. Having to be in the right place at the right time, Lisette lands a job to act as the personal assistant to a major record label producer (Dunne) who is trying to sign a major Latin music group (played by the real life group Barrio Boyzz).