Directed by Raúl Marchand-Sánchez Puerto Rico, 2002, 35 mm, 93 min. Miami Premiere

Opening a few minutes before 6 pm on a typically vivid, sweltering Friday night in San Juan, "12 horas" intertwines parallel stories of more than a dozen characters in an adventure so intensely sexual, heated and funny it will knock the socks off even seasoned South Beachers. Three giggly young co-workers, whose raunchy banter would make the girls of Sex and the City blush, knock back the tequila and hit the town on the hunt for men; a male gigolo services an unbalanced client; a 16-year-old sets out determined to lose her virginity; and a petty thief holds up a convenience store at gunpoint, terrorizing a trio of tacky drag queens and giving a well-known lifestyle TV reporter her biggest break yet...and that's just the first 6 hours! Skillfully orchestrating all plots to culminate in a whirlwind crescendo at 3 am in a huge gay club, Eros, where transsexual superstar Jacqueline Bom Bom performs her newest show, Caramelo y Chocolate, and the "anaconda" in the gigolo's pants gets a whole new kind of workout, writer-director Rául Marchand-Sánchez has delivered a delirious and hysterical film that also has its serious side. As the night draws to a close, a minor on-screen character undergoes a transformation so startling and unexpected it drives home gripping points about the level of both private and public homosexual acceptance in Puerto Rican society today.
In Spanish with English subtitles.

Total running time: 93 min.
$12 non-members / $10 members

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