Old Gringo (1989)
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45% of critics liked it
(11 reviews) -
42% of users liked it
(1,016 ratings)
In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden her horizons, accepts a job as a governess in Mexico in 1913. However, Harriet unknowingly finds herself thrown into the middle of the Mexican revolution, where she… More In this historical drama based on Carlos Fuentes' novel, Harriet Winslow (Jane Fonda) is a naive woman who, hoping to broaden her horizons, accepts a job as a governess in Mexico in 1913. However, Harriet unknowingly finds herself thrown into the middle of the Mexican revolution, where she attracts the attentions of two very different men: an elderly American gentleman (Gregory Peck) who has come to Mexico to die, and Tomas Arroyo (Jimmy Smits), a general with Pancho Villa's army of rebels who is fighting for the freedom of his people. The American's attraction to Harriet is more intellectual (though he unmistakably finds her attractive), while Arroyo holds a greater romantic allure to Harriet, who is still a stranger to the ways of love. In time, she gains a new sense of freedom and self-knowledge in Mexico, but while the victories of Villa's forces bring out an unseemly arrogance in Arroyo, Harriet makes a surprising discovery about the Old Gringo -- that he is in fact the fabled author Ambrose Bierce, who vanished years before. Old Gringo was the first American film for director Luis Puenzo, and the next-to-last for star Jane Fonda. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Luis Puenzo
- Written By
- Carlos Fuentes, Aida Bortnik
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 6, 1989 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Ryan Cracknell, Apollo Guide
While there's nothing inherently awful about Old Gringo, it had the potential to be something more than it is - a semi-coherent romantic melodrama.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Propelled by the desperate yearning of three strangers who meet in Mexico in l913 during Pancho Villa's revolution.
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Cast
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Jane Fonda
as Harriet Winslow
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Gregory Peck
as Ambrose Bierce
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Jimmy Smits
as Gen. Tomas Arroyo
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Patricio Contreras
as Col. Frutos Garcia
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Jenny Gago
as La Garduna
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Jim Metzler
as Ron
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Gabriela Roel
as La Luna
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Anne Pitoniak
as Mrs. Winslow
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Pedro Armendariz Jr.
as Pancho Villa
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Sergio Calderón
as Zacarias
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Guillermo Ríos
as Monsalvo
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Stanley Grover
as Consul Saunders
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Josefina Echánove
as Clementina
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Maya Zapata
as Dolores
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Jose Olivares
as Trinidad
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Carlos Cardan
as Matias Salazar
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Víctor Carpinteiro
as Hilario
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Pedro Damien
as Capt. Ovando
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Samuel Valadez de la Torre
as Pedrito
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Alicia del Lago
as His Wife
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Laurel Lyle
as Librarian
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Richardson Morse
as Editor
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Salvador Sanchez
as Floreal
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Steve Spencer
as Assistant Consul
- Jessica Tandy
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Abel Woolrich
as Tall Soldier
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Jorge Zepeda
as Administrator of Hacienda
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Mario Arevalo
as Casimiro
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Maria Luisa Coronel
as Maria
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Arturo Rodriguez Doring
as Mexican Journalist
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Mark Kelty
as Journalist
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Juan Antonio Llanes
as Assistant Hotel Clerk
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Evangelina Sosa Martinez
as Guadalupe
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Roberto Sosa Martinez
as Lucio
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Maria Victoria Mondragon
as Old Woman
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Fernando Moya
as Hotel Clerk
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Roberto Ortiz
as Federal Officer
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Martín Palomares
as Wounded Man
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Rene Pereyra
as Short Soldier
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Hector Rivera
as Ataulfo
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Jose Juan Rodriguez
as Old Man
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Stewart Smith
as Journalist with Glasses
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Amelia Zapata
as Juana
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John Williams
as Journalist
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Paul Williams
as Cinematographer
