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Two spoiled sisters -- Nora, a law student, and Mary, an undergrad party girl -- live with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" she refuses to admit she is of Mexican descent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia's modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA. They are terrified to leave their world of privilege; neither Nora nor Mary speak Spanish or have ever had to take on actual responsibility. The girls gradually adapt to their new environment; their BMW and Prius are traded for the public bus and a used car. As they embrace the culture that for so long they refused to accept, they both discover romance, the true meaning of family, and they learn that the life of PRADA actually means NADA without love, family and community.
Also Known As:
Sense and Sensibilidad
Sensibilidad
Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline: Two spoiled, Latina sisters are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.
Genres: Comedy, Drama and Adaptation
Running Time: 1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date: January 28th, 2011 (limited)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief drug use and a sexual situation.
Distributors:
Lionsgate
Production Co.:
OddLot Entertainment, Gilbert Films, Videocine
Sazonarte
Safe Filming
Sonic Magic Studios
Modern VideoFilm, Inc.
EFD Equipment and Film Design
Alternative Rentals
Gallagher Entertainment
Babok & Levin
Despacho Limón Mestre
Film Finances, Inc.
Studios:
Lionsgate
Filming Locations:
Mexico City, Mexico
Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced in: United States

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Hampered by Brown's pedestrian direction, the film turns cloying and heavy-handed, particularly during its excessive, overly beatific flashbacks to Douglass' idyllic youth. Furthermore, its faith-oriented themes, although pivotal, are often writ so large they tend to encroach instead of enlighten. Really, how many beauty shots of the heavens do we need?

Mike Vogel, a sharp, appealing young actor ("She's Out of My League," TV's "Miami Medical"), plays Brooks Douglass circa 1993 as the then-freshman senator and his still-shattered sister, Leslie (Taryn Manning), hit an emotional crossroads just before the state execution of one of their family's attackers.Vogel and Manning ("Hustle & Flow") rise above the exposition-heavy material, even if Vogel is less effective in flashbacks as the teen Douglass. But the rest of the otherwise low-wattage cast, which includes Brooks Douglass, playing his saintly father, and Erin Chambers as an unconvincing newbie journalist, is uniformly bland.

Nice use of the Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me," though.

--Gary Goldstein

"Heaven's Rain." MPAA Rating: R for disturbing content. Running time: 1 hour, 46 minutes. At Laemmle's Fallbrook 7, West Hills.