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Release Date: 2001

Cast: Mía Maestro, Salma Hayek, Marc Anthony, Demián Bichir, Edward James Olmos, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Pilar Padilla, Ana Martín, Lumi Cavazos

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Romantic Drama, Drama Film, Romance Film, Political Drama

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960. In the film, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony has a minor role as Minerva's first... MORE

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960. In the film, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony has a minor role as Minerva's first love, and as the impetus for her later revolutionary activities. The Movie Begins showing pictures and films of the actual victims Of Rafael Trujillo. During the montage a title card appears that says: The scene shifts to inside of a prison cell where one of his victims, Minerva Mirabal recounts the events of the story. Minerva and her three sisters Patria, Dede and Maria Teresa ("Mate") live on a farm in rural Ojo De Agua. Minerva, the outspoken sister, convinces her father to send her, Patria and Mate away to attend school. The sisters spend five years away at school, during which time Minerva LESS