Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican actress who has appeared in various acclaimed Hollywood films. She is also credited as Elpedia Carrillo on some of her films. Her most famous role to date has arguably been that of "Maria" in the 1986 movie Salvador, where she acted alongside James Woods. She has also acted with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jimmy Smits and many other stars.
Carrillo was born in Parácuaro,Michoacán, Mexico and lives in Venice California, with two daughters and husband.[citation needed]
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Bread and Roses is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Adrien Brody. The plot deals with the struggle of poorly paid cleaners in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize.
The film is critical of inequalities in the US, health insurance in particular is highlighted and it is also claimed in the film that the pay of cleaners and other low paying jobs has declined in recent years.
The film's name, "Bread and Roses", derives from the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Though the phrase comes from a 1911 poem by James Oppenheim, it is commonly associated with the Lawrence strike, which united dozens of immigrant communities, led to a large extent by women, under the leadership of the Industrial Workers of the World.
The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Award at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in 2000. In 2001, it was nominated for the Artios...
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Predator is a 1987 science fiction, action and horror film directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Jesse Ventura. It grossed $60 million in the United States, generating the sequels Predator 2 in 1990 and Alien vs. Predator in 2004.The film Predator utilizes a story of the hunter becoming the hunted. The creature, named "Predator" (known in spin-offs as being of the species Yautja), is an alien humanoid with advanced technology and a penchant for hunting difficult game. With interstellar travel capability, multi-spectrum vision enhancement and a light-bending armour suit with weapons, the Predator creature is supposedly able to travel anywhere, hunt anything and usually succeed. Much of the Predator's history and motivation are left open to the viewer, but after the success of this film, a franchise was created with a detailed back story on the creature, complete with a battle-based society where young Predators are trained within a galaxy of...,
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Salvador is a 1986 film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and rightist military. It stars James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana, Cynthia Gibb, Juan Fernandez and José Carlos Ruiz. The movie, despite its serious subject matter, is presented as a political thriller through the eyes of Boyle.
The movie was written by Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle, and was directed by Oliver Stone. Oliver Stone's portrayal is strongly sympathetic towards the left wing and Communist tendencies. He is strongly critical towards the rightwing military, and the Mono Blanco deathsquads. His portrayal of the Catholic Church reflects his political views. This is exemplified in the political sermon of Archbishop Romero, where the Catholic prelate is made to contradict himself and Catholic Social doctrine.
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