
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 113m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Mira Nair
- Stars: Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Anjelica Huston, Chazz Palminteri, Trini Alvarado
- keywords: immigration, woman director, political prisoner, cuban refugees
- Production_studio: The Samuel Goldwyn Company
- Slogan: On the way to finding a family, she found love.
- providers: ScreenPix Apple TV Channel
- The The Perez Family is featured in the top rankings of 1995
- #64 in Top Comedy Movies of 1995
- #50 in Top Romance Movies of 1995
In the midst of the Mariel boat lift -- a hurried exodus of refugees from Cuba going to America -- an immigration clerk accidentally presumes that dissident Juan Raul Perez and Dorita Evita Perez are married. United by their last name and a mutual resolve to emigrate, Dorita and Juan agree to play along. But it gets complicated when the two begin falling for each other just as Juan reunites with his wife, Carmela, whom he hasn't seen in decades.