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The Devil Has a Name Movie Storyline. Santiago, an immigrant from Mexico who has worked for Fred for 30 years, is the kind of character that in another pic wouldn’t be this multi-dimensional. He is a self-described anarchist who also loves snapping selfies throughout the day. He moves seamlessly between speaking English and Spanish no matter whether he is talking to Stern, Stern’s lawyer Ralph or his buddies at the bar. That there is no subtitling suggests that Olmos wants to subvert the idea of Spanish as a “foreign” language and make much-needed room for Latinx moviegoers to see themselves in the story. But even for non-Spanish speakers, Santiago’s cool Grandpa snark is hard to miss and even harder not to love.
The Devil Has a Name is a 2019 American dark comedy film starring and directed by Edward James Olmos. It also stars David Strathairn, Kate Bosworth, Pablo Schreiber, Katie Aselton, Haley Joel Osment, Alfred Molina, and Martin Sheen. The film premiered at the 2019 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. It was then released in the United States in selected theaters, through video on demand, and on digital platforms on October 16, 2020, by Momentum Pictures.
The Devil Has a Name (2020)
Directed by: Edward James Olmos
Starring: David Strathairn, Kate Bosworth, Pablo Schreiber, Edward James Olmos, Katie Aselton, Haley Joel Osment, Alfred Molina, Martin Sheen, Kathleen Quinlan, Estefanie Morena
Screenplay by: Robert McEveety
Cinematography by: Reynaldo Villalobos
Film Editing by: Robert K. Lambert
Costume Design by: Lynette Meyer
Music by: Ariel Marx, Mark Tschanz
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual material and drug use, and brief violence.
Distributed by: Momentum Pictures
Release Date: August 4, 2019 (LALIFF), October 16, 2020 (United States)
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