I remembered my own childhood growing up in New York — I had never been to Puerto Rico and I had never seen anyone who looked like me on television," recalls Manzano, who grew up in the Bronx.

Be it "Gilligan's Island" viewers badgering the Coast Guard to rescue the S.S. Minnow's poor shipwrecked crew or grown-up ...

The cast includes actors Sonia Manzano, who played the iconic María ... of the movie’s writers and a cultural consultant. “The family trips to Mexico are something real common around the ...