Carmelita Tropicana

Carmelita Tropicana

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 1, 1994

Runtime

0h 27m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

Carmelita Tropicana

Production Companies

ITVS

Director

Ela Troyano

Description

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.