Fatherless barrio Puerto Rican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy nightclub La Luna's upcoming contest is to be his. He encourages his best friend, courteous gentleman Ken, to date his sister Margarita so he gets a free hand with her flirtatious classmate Lola. The reigning salsa queen Luna's interest in Rico as dance-partner threatens his on-off relationship with Vicki. More jealous trouble follows when Ken and Margarita fall in true love.

Directed by

Boaz Davidson

Written by

Boaz Davidson, Eli Tavor, Tomás Benitez, Shepard Goldman

Genres

Music, Romance

Released

July 9, 1988

Runtime

1h 38m

Status

Released

Language

English

Countries

United States of America

Studios

Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group

Box office

$8,892,589