Carmelita Tropicana (1994)

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.

Released Feb. 1, 1994 27 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.independent-film

Watch Providers: Kanopy

Production Companies: ITVS

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English, Spanish