Pérez Riera impresses with the caliber of the interviewees she lined up, starting with Miranda, who considers Moreno a role model and friend. It's all there in this insightful, revelatory, and riveting documentary. Neither Pérez Riera nor Moreno shy away from revealing the ugly truths of the storied actor's past: her tumultuous affair with the narcissistic Brando, her appalling experiences with handsy executives who thought of her as an exotic plaything, her rape by a trusted friend and agent, the secret challenges of what seemed like a perfect marriage, her internalized shame at having to play stereotypical women of color or ethnic characters with accents. This is a candid, powerful profile of an extraordinary and pioneering performer whose influence and relevance has lasted more than 70 years.
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Audiences will learn about her professional triumphs and challenges - like how often she was expected to play the "foreign character with an accent" - as well as her personal ups and downs, like her volatile relationship with a notoriously unfaithful and self-involved Marlon Brando. Those friends include Lin-Manuel Miranda, fellow-EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg, George Chakiris (the Bernardo to Moreno's Anita in West Side Story), her Electric Company co-star Morgan Freeman, and her One Day at a Time family, including Gloria Estefan and Justina Machado. Director Mariem Pérez Riera interviews Moreno her only daughter, Fernanda Luisa Gordon and an array of Moreno's celebrity friends, co-stars, and protégés, as well as professors, cultural/film critics, and producers. RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT is a chronicle of the legendary Emmy-, Grammy-, Oscar-, and Tony-winning performer's life and career, from her childhood as a young Puerto Rican girl in New York City to her early roles, her big break in West Side Story, and her difficulty in finding a place in Hollywood.
Families will be able to discuss Moreno's career highlights, her perseverance, and how much she had to overcome in the industry. She also talks about an unsafe abortion that she felt forced to have, as well as a suicide attempt.
More frequent is the frank discussion of sexual violence and sexual harassment in Hollywood: Moreno reveals her own related experiences, including being raped by a former agent as a young woman. Moreno and the interview subjects curse ("f-k," "s-t," etc.), but it's not frequent.
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Movie clips include domestic violence and the scene of Anita being attacked by the Jets in West Side Story.
The film features interviews with Moreno's many celebrity friends, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Whoopi Goldberg, Morgan Freeman, and more. Parents need to know that Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is a biographical documentary about the life and career of Rita Moreno, whose seven-decade career on stage and screen spans stereotypical roles as random "ethnic" supporting players to her Oscar-winning role in West Side Story to her re-emergence in One Day at a Time.
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