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Wikipedia article
'200 Cartas' (released worldwide as 'Looking for Mara Snchez') is an independent Puerto Rican film, written and directed by Bruno Irizarry, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jaime Camil, Dayanara Torres, Monica Steuer and Mayra Matos Prez.
Synopsis
Struggling nuyorican comic book artist Ral (Lin-Manuel Miranda) meets a woman named Mara Snchez (Mayra Matos Prez), who's visiting from Puerto Rico, at a bar in New York City and immediately falls in love with her. After the two part their ways and Mara returns to Puerto Rico, Ral seeks his friend and coworker Juan (Jaime Camil) to help him find her. They both travel to Puerto Rico to search for Mara Snchez, only to find that there are two hundred women with that same name in the phone book. During their search, Yolanda (Dayanara Torres) meets Ral and Juan and offers to help them find Ral's love of his life. Ral then comes up with writing 200 letters addressed to each Mara Snchez found in the phone book and personally contacting or meeting the ones who respond, in hopes to find the one he met in New York City.
Cast
*Lin-Manuel Miranda as Ral
*Jaime Camil as Juan
*Dayanara Torres as Yolanda
*Monica Steuer as Rebeca
*Mayra Matos Prez as Mara Snchez
*Vctor Alicea as the husband
*Jonathan Louis Ramos as Tito
*Maris Alvarez as Sara
*Neville Archambault as Scary Man
*Iris Chacn as the Santera
*Bruno Irizarry as Marcos
*Juan Manuel Lebrn as Don Armando
*Luis Ral as Pedro
Production
Filmed over 17 days in New York and Puerto Rico, the movie grossed an estimated $1 million after its release in June 2013 in New York City, its World Premieres Film Festival showing in the Philippines in July 2013 and its premiere in Puerto Rico in September 2013.
References
Category:2013 films
Category:Films set in Puerto Rico
Category:Films shot in Puerto Rico
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