Movie  1995
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Alberto Aragon: My daughter can trace her roots back 400 years to the best families in Mexico.
Guadalupe Aragon: You must see it through. Your fate. What brought you here.
Don Pedro Aragon: Newlyweds. What else do they do but make love and war?
Paul Sutton: She's like the air to me.
Paul: I know that she is good and strong and deserves all the love this world has to give. Can't you see that, how wonderful, how special she is?
Don Pedro Aragon: Clothes are like family. You have to live in them for awhile before you have the perfect fit. But you are doing great.
Paul: I don't if everyone would share your opinion.
Don Pedro Aragon: Well, it's not easy being in charge. It's not easy for me. It's not easy for him. Every man has to find his own way. But I have faith in my son. And I have faith in you. But your fly is open.
Alberto Aragon: Just because I talk with an accent doesn't mean I think with an accent.
Don Pedro Aragon: Talking between men and women never solves anything. Where we think, they feel. They are creatures of the heart.
Victoria Arag?n: We can sleep in Pedro's room.
Mar?a Jos? Arag?n: In that teeny-tiny little bed?
[laughs]
Mar?a Jos? Arag?n: On your wedding night? Ay hija, no. You need room, to maneuver.
Victoria Arag?n: Mommy!
Description
After returning from World War II, a young G.I. (Keanu Reeves) finds he has little in common with the wife he left behind. Disillusioned, he heads north to work as a travelling salesman where he meets the daughter (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon) of a wealthy vineyard owner (Giancarlo Giannini). On her way home, she is unmarried and pregnant. The young man gallantly offers to help by posing as her husband for one night, unaware that doing so will change both of their lives forever.

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Keanu Reeves is completely wooden in this romantic misfire by Alfonso Arau (Like Water for Chocolate). Reeves plays a World War II vet who hits the road as a traveling salesman and agrees to help a desperate, pregnant woman (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon)--who is afraid to let her father (Giancarlo Giannini) see her condition--by pretending to be her husband. Most of the story takes place in the old man's vineyard, and Arau makes a life of swollen fruit, grape-stomping, sunlight, and tan flesh that looks amazingly erotic. But there are plenty of sillier distractions, such as the sight of farm hands chasing insects with flapping gossamer wings attached to their arms. Reeves is terribly self-conscious, while stalwart Anthony Quinn is memorable as the damsel's benevolent grandfather. --Tom Keogh