Chasing Papi

2003, 80 mins., color (CC)

Credits: Laura Simon, Tracey Trench, Forest Whitaker, producers; Linda Mendoza, director, Laura Simon and Steve Antin, screenwriters

Cast: Roselyn Sanchez, Sofia Vergara, Jaci Velasquez, Eduardo Verastagui, Lisa Vidal, Maria Conchita Alonso

Summary: Three beautiful women – brainy Chicago lawyer Lorena (Sanchez), saucy Miami cocktail waitress Cici (Vergara), and wealthy, prim New Yorker Patricia (Velasquez) – find out that they are all being romanced by the same man, advertising exec Thomas “Papi” Fuentes when they simultaneously arrive at his home. But Papi is unconscious, the result of mixing too much alcohol with drugs, a self-medding effect of his anxiety at dating three women. The girls spot another apparent girlfriend but she’s wearing a gun and they take off with the unconscious Papi. But the woman is an FBI agent, tracking money in the trunk of the car Cici has driven. The money belongs to two drug dealers and soon enough they join the chase too. Along the way the women realize that they don’t have to be enemies and must use each other’s assets to make their getaway.
The dvd includes English/Spanish commentary from the director, cinematographer and cast, a “making of” featurette, bloopers and outtakes, a music video, and the original trailer.