Lua de Cristal

Lua de Cristal

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Tizuka Yamasaki
Produced by Carlos Alberto Diniz
Marco Aurélio Marcondes
Marta Passos
Diler Trindade
Written by Carlos Alberto Diniz
Luís Carlos Góes
Patrícia Travassos
Yoya Wursch
Starring Xuxa
Sérgio Mallandro
Duda Little
Júlia Lemmertz
Marilu Bueno
Avelar Love
Music by Ary Sperling
Cinematography Edgar Moura
Edited by Marco Antonio Cury
Ana Diniz
Production
company
Ponto Filmes
Art Films
Xuxa Produções
Columbia Trist
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
  • June 21, 1990 (1990-06-21)[1]
Running time
90 minutes
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese
Budget $500,000[2]

Lua de Cristal (English: Xuxa in Crystal Moon) is a 1990 Brazilian comedy-romance film directed by Tizuka Yamasaki, and starring Xuxa Meneghel.

With just under 5 milion spectators, Lua de Cristal was the biggest film of the 1990s, and it guaranteed Xuxa a second box-office hit at a time when the Brazilian film industry has all but ground to a halt.[3]

Plot

Maria das Graças is a country girl who has the dream of becoming a great singer. His mother sends it to the Rio de Janeiro so that she study corner. Maria staying in aunt's house, which is landlady of a building. The aunt is a very cruel woman and, along with her daughter and her son Maurice, makes Maria the maid of the house to meet your wishes. Thus, Maria loses the first interview Prof. school Uirapuru. But in the second gets a job as a student and begins to mingle with the school staff. She is looking for a job and get to know Bob, a waiter at Babalu bar. Bob is in love with her and you get an interview. With the help of Dudley, a child who had clung to Mary, she gets the job. She and the waiter make an appointment. But when Bob will get it watches Maurice that is kissing. He leaves disappointed but the next day she explains that her cousin was abusing her. Maria's song is delighted and makes the dead plants come to life. In the early days of employment, cousin appears with his gang and ready a mess in the cafeteria, destroying everything. When it comes Bartholomew, the bar owner, desperate with the injury, Maria explains that the fault is not Bob. Maria decides to pay the damage to the economies that his mother had given him. Also decides to give up your dreams and go home. When she's leaving, Maurice the kidnaps. Duda tells Bob that will rescue her. When they save, they decide to put on a show to raise money for the reconstruction of the bar.

Cast

See also

References

  1. "Lua de Cristal" (in Portuguese). Cinemateca Brasileira. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  2. "23 coisas que você não sabia sobre "Lua de Cristal"" (in Portuguese). buzzfeed.com/. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
  3. Shaw, Lisa. "Brazilian National Cinema" - p.171

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