Raising Victor Vargas (Special Edition)
Starring:Victor Rasuk, Judy Marte, Melonie Diaz, Altagracia Guzman, Silvestre Rasuk, Krystal Rodriguez, Kevin Rivera, Wilfree Vasquez, Donna Maldonado, Alexander Garcia (II), John Ramos, Theresa Martinez, Randy Luna, Jeff Knite, Juan I. Lebron, Joe Rosario (II), Gladys Austin, Jacqueline Rosario, Carlos Santiago
Director: Peter Sollett
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon
Average customer rating:
- If you love New York, you will love this movie
- a really love this movie
- A Realistic Teenage Love Story
- It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom
- Worth seeing once...probably never again
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Raising Victor Vargas
Starring: Victor Rasuk , Judy Marte , Melonie Diaz , Altagracia Guzman , and Silvestre Rasuk
Director: Peter Sollett
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
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ASIN: B00008EY7D
Release Date: 2003-08-26 |
Amazon.com
Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon
Description
A Lower East Side teenager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend and a longing younger brother.
Customer Reviews:
If you love New York, you will love this movie.......2006-11-04
This movie and the characters in it are so real. It describes exactly the grittiness, people and energy of the New York that I love. They are rude, in-your-face, and therefore incredibly fascinating to be with. Having lived there for 10 years, I felt like the characters are my neighbours and friends.
Some reviewers thought this is about poverty or limited resource or the rough life of an urban hispanic youth. I don't think you will feel that way if you ever tasted life in the Big Apple. This is about the incredible cauldron of human beings living densely on a small island. While I lived a life of relative affluence and privilege while in New York, I know many friends who live in the Lower East Side and in homes not very different from the one in the movie. But their lives are not improvished, or limited, and they don't feel that way themselves. They are incredibly interesting, romantic and full of sparkle and energy. I guess that is the reason why the Lower East Side is now becoming yuppiefied!
a really love this movie .......2006-02-10
A GREAT FILM
This is such a good film. Its realistic and really funny. Its a good comedy with a heart and the acting is great. I would recommend it to anybody.
Also Recommended: Girlfight, Requiem For A Dream
A Realistic Teenage Love Story.......2006-01-13
What you come to love most about this film is that it holds nothing back. It shows you what's on the teenage mind around that age and it doesn't water anything down. In Raising Victor Vargas you basically get to know two teenage guys Victor who has a cocky and arrogent swagger and his friend Harold who is really just along for the ride that is victor's life. What's interesting about the movie is that the girl Victor wants is constantly harassed all day every day by guys that want her and Victor becomes one of them. This movie becomes an addiction after the first time you watch it, you can't really explain every detail you just have to see it and you really can't give any of the film away because its a life and you watch a boy become a man. I love that Victor and Judy never have sex and to me it increases the amount of love showing that Victor finally learned what he was meant to be instead of the womanizer he was trying to be.
It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom.......2005-12-02
Victor is a teenager living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, trying to grow up and become a man, in spite of everything that is thrown his way. First of all, Grandma, his grandmother that is raising him and his brother and sister, is a real ball-breaker. She throws him out, only to be told it is illegal to put minors out on the streets in the USA. She thinks he is a horibble influence on his brother Nino, the grandmother's unabashed favorite. Nino is just reaching the age where he is spending literally hours in the bathroom with dirty magazines, and when Grandma walks in and sees him going to town, she blames it all on Victor. The fights between the siblings seem to real and relevant. The language used is vulgar and yet accurate. Everything that Victor is concerned about...the neighborhood not knowing he is sleeping with Fat Donna, his crush on Juicy Judy, is amusing and reminds one of being a teenager. There is much more depth to this movie than I would have expected, and Victor Rasuk, who plays Victor Vargas, is a force to be reckoned with.
Worth seeing once...probably never again.......2005-11-28
After all the fanfare I kept waiting for this movie to get good. There were some subtle subplots going on. It is mostly a tale of poverty and inner city coming of age. I don't feel I really took anything introspective away from this movie, and it wasn't artistic cinima. It had a few good laughs, lots of sibling rivalry drama, disfunctional teen love/infatuation, an overprotective grandmother caretaker who doesn't know what to do, etc.
Was it interesting? Not for everyone. Was it funny? A little. Was it inspirational or introspective? Not for me.
Average customer rating:
- If you love New York, you will love this movie
- a really love this movie
- A Realistic Teenage Love Story
- It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom
- Worth seeing once...probably never again
|
Raising Victor Vargas (Special Edition)
Starring: Victor Rasuk , Judy Marte , Melonie Diaz , Altagracia Guzman , and Silvestre Rasuk
Director: Peter Sollett
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Comedy
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
General
| Drama
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
All Sony Pictures Titles
| Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
| Studio Specials
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
( R )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Special Editions
| Fully Loaded DVDs
| Features
| DVD
| Video
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- Real Women Have Curves
- Maria Full of Grace
- On the Outs
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ASIN: B0002HODEA
Release Date: 2004-08-24 |
Amazon.com
Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
If you love New York, you will love this movie.......2006-11-04
This movie and the characters in it are so real. It describes exactly the grittiness, people and energy of the New York that I love. They are rude, in-your-face, and therefore incredibly fascinating to be with. Having lived there for 10 years, I felt like the characters are my neighbours and friends.
Some reviewers thought this is about poverty or limited resource or the rough life of an urban hispanic youth. I don't think you will feel that way if you ever tasted life in the Big Apple. This is about the incredible cauldron of human beings living densely on a small island. While I lived a life of relative affluence and privilege while in New York, I know many friends who live in the Lower East Side and in homes not very different from the one in the movie. But their lives are not improvished, or limited, and they don't feel that way themselves. They are incredibly interesting, romantic and full of sparkle and energy. I guess that is the reason why the Lower East Side is now becoming yuppiefied!
a really love this movie .......2006-02-10
A GREAT FILM
This is such a good film. Its realistic and really funny. Its a good comedy with a heart and the acting is great. I would recommend it to anybody.
Also Recommended: Girlfight, Requiem For A Dream
A Realistic Teenage Love Story.......2006-01-13
What you come to love most about this film is that it holds nothing back. It shows you what's on the teenage mind around that age and it doesn't water anything down. In Raising Victor Vargas you basically get to know two teenage guys Victor who has a cocky and arrogent swagger and his friend Harold who is really just along for the ride that is victor's life. What's interesting about the movie is that the girl Victor wants is constantly harassed all day every day by guys that want her and Victor becomes one of them. This movie becomes an addiction after the first time you watch it, you can't really explain every detail you just have to see it and you really can't give any of the film away because its a life and you watch a boy become a man. I love that Victor and Judy never have sex and to me it increases the amount of love showing that Victor finally learned what he was meant to be instead of the womanizer he was trying to be.
It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom.......2005-12-02
Victor is a teenager living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, trying to grow up and become a man, in spite of everything that is thrown his way. First of all, Grandma, his grandmother that is raising him and his brother and sister, is a real ball-breaker. She throws him out, only to be told it is illegal to put minors out on the streets in the USA. She thinks he is a horibble influence on his brother Nino, the grandmother's unabashed favorite. Nino is just reaching the age where he is spending literally hours in the bathroom with dirty magazines, and when Grandma walks in and sees him going to town, she blames it all on Victor. The fights between the siblings seem to real and relevant. The language used is vulgar and yet accurate. Everything that Victor is concerned about...the neighborhood not knowing he is sleeping with Fat Donna, his crush on Juicy Judy, is amusing and reminds one of being a teenager. There is much more depth to this movie than I would have expected, and Victor Rasuk, who plays Victor Vargas, is a force to be reckoned with.
Worth seeing once...probably never again.......2005-11-28
After all the fanfare I kept waiting for this movie to get good. There were some subtle subplots going on. It is mostly a tale of poverty and inner city coming of age. I don't feel I really took anything introspective away from this movie, and it wasn't artistic cinima. It had a few good laughs, lots of sibling rivalry drama, disfunctional teen love/infatuation, an overprotective grandmother caretaker who doesn't know what to do, etc.
Was it interesting? Not for everyone. Was it funny? A little. Was it inspirational or introspective? Not for me.
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Average customer rating:
- If you love New York, you will love this movie
- a really love this movie
- A Realistic Teenage Love Story
- It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom
- Worth seeing once...probably never again
|
Raising Victor Vargas [Region 2]
Starring: Victor Rasuk , Judy Marte , Melonie Diaz , Altagracia Guzman , and Silvestre Rasuk
Director: Peter Sollett
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Comedy
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
( R )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
- Washington Heights
- Real Women Have Curves
- Maria Full of Grace
- On the Outs
- I Like It Like That
ASIN: B0001EYT16 |
Amazon.com
Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
If you love New York, you will love this movie.......2006-11-04
This movie and the characters in it are so real. It describes exactly the grittiness, people and energy of the New York that I love. They are rude, in-your-face, and therefore incredibly fascinating to be with. Having lived there for 10 years, I felt like the characters are my neighbours and friends.
Some reviewers thought this is about poverty or limited resource or the rough life of an urban hispanic youth. I don't think you will feel that way if you ever tasted life in the Big Apple. This is about the incredible cauldron of human beings living densely on a small island. While I lived a life of relative affluence and privilege while in New York, I know many friends who live in the Lower East Side and in homes not very different from the one in the movie. But their lives are not improvished, or limited, and they don't feel that way themselves. They are incredibly interesting, romantic and full of sparkle and energy. I guess that is the reason why the Lower East Side is now becoming yuppiefied!
a really love this movie .......2006-02-10
A GREAT FILM
This is such a good film. Its realistic and really funny. Its a good comedy with a heart and the acting is great. I would recommend it to anybody.
Also Recommended: Girlfight, Requiem For A Dream
A Realistic Teenage Love Story.......2006-01-13
What you come to love most about this film is that it holds nothing back. It shows you what's on the teenage mind around that age and it doesn't water anything down. In Raising Victor Vargas you basically get to know two teenage guys Victor who has a cocky and arrogent swagger and his friend Harold who is really just along for the ride that is victor's life. What's interesting about the movie is that the girl Victor wants is constantly harassed all day every day by guys that want her and Victor becomes one of them. This movie becomes an addiction after the first time you watch it, you can't really explain every detail you just have to see it and you really can't give any of the film away because its a life and you watch a boy become a man. I love that Victor and Judy never have sex and to me it increases the amount of love showing that Victor finally learned what he was meant to be instead of the womanizer he was trying to be.
It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom.......2005-12-02
Victor is a teenager living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, trying to grow up and become a man, in spite of everything that is thrown his way. First of all, Grandma, his grandmother that is raising him and his brother and sister, is a real ball-breaker. She throws him out, only to be told it is illegal to put minors out on the streets in the USA. She thinks he is a horibble influence on his brother Nino, the grandmother's unabashed favorite. Nino is just reaching the age where he is spending literally hours in the bathroom with dirty magazines, and when Grandma walks in and sees him going to town, she blames it all on Victor. The fights between the siblings seem to real and relevant. The language used is vulgar and yet accurate. Everything that Victor is concerned about...the neighborhood not knowing he is sleeping with Fat Donna, his crush on Juicy Judy, is amusing and reminds one of being a teenager. There is much more depth to this movie than I would have expected, and Victor Rasuk, who plays Victor Vargas, is a force to be reckoned with.
Worth seeing once...probably never again.......2005-11-28
After all the fanfare I kept waiting for this movie to get good. There were some subtle subplots going on. It is mostly a tale of poverty and inner city coming of age. I don't feel I really took anything introspective away from this movie, and it wasn't artistic cinima. It had a few good laughs, lots of sibling rivalry drama, disfunctional teen love/infatuation, an overprotective grandmother caretaker who doesn't know what to do, etc.
Was it interesting? Not for everyone. Was it funny? A little. Was it inspirational or introspective? Not for me.
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