Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

[Opens June 18 in theaters.] Mariem Pérez Riera's informative, entertaining, enlightening, insightful, inspirational, 90-minute documentary in which multitalented, EGOT-winning, 89-year-old actress Rita Moreno candidly discusses her personal life and 70+-year career in Hollywood as a Latina singer, actress, and dancer from Puerto Rico and her success and struggles in films and on stage and consists of archival film clips, home movie snippets, and commentary by actors (such as Morgan Freeman, Whoopi Goldberg, Héctor Elizondo, Eva Longoria, Lin-Manuel Miranda, George Chakiris, Justina Machado, Mitzi Gaynor, Chita Rivera, Sonia Manzano, and Karen Olivo), singer Gloria Estefan, executive producer Norman Lear, historian Julia Foulkes, filmmaker Frances Negrón-Muntaner, theater director Tony Taccone, daughter Fernanda Gordon Fisher, author Annette Insdorf, playwright Terrence McNally, screenwriter Tom Fontana, musician Emilio Estefan, grandson Justin Fisher, manager John Ferguson, and congresswoman Jackie Speier.
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