Salsa

"The Dirtiest Dancing Of Them All!"

May 6 1988 PG 1h 37m
Music, Romance

Fatherless barrio Puerto Rican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages his best friend, courteous gentleman Ken, to date his sister Margarita so he gets a free hand with her flirtatious classmate Lola. The reigning salsa queen Luna's interest in Rico as dance-partner threatens his on-off relationship with Vicki. More jealous trouble follows when Ken and Margarita fall in true love.

Plot

Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages his best friend, courteous gentleman Ken, to date his sister Margarita so he gets a free hand with her flirtatious classmate Lola. The reigning salsa queen Luna's interest in Rico as dance-partner threatens his on-off relationship with Vicki. More jealous trouble follows when Ken and Margarita fall in true love.

Written by

Boaz Davidson, Eli Tavor, Tomás Benitez

Directed by

Boaz Davidson

Cast

Draco Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Languages

English, Español

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers
SALSA - (1988) Trailer
Scores
# of Votes
1,319
Average Rating
4.8 out of 10
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