Handsome young victor vargas victor rasuk lives with his grandmother altagracia guzman, brother nino sylvestre rasuk and sister vicki krystal rodriguez in new yorks lower east side. Though the two films share an uncommonly supple touch with improvised dialogue and laidback naturalism, writerdirector peter solletts enormously winning debut raising victor vargas is the antikids, answering the earlier films misanthropy with a surpassingly sweet look at urban adolescents. The film opens on 16yearold victor victor rasuk posing. Tom snyder raising victor vargas is a winsome character study of a dominican republic family living in new york city. Raising victor vargas 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. Raising victor vargas 2002 the movie database tmdb. Raising victor vargas 2003 cast and crew on new york citys lower east side, dominican teen and aspiring ladies man victor vargas victor rasuk has nothing but girls on his mind.
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