| He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card | Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down |
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| decided to keep that unscripted exchange in the movie to show Elvira's gradual warming up to Montana | Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him |
| By the time the port was closed 125,000 'Marielitos' had landed in Florida | Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock |
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| He also brings a new level of violence to Miami | In the next few weeks, it became evident that Castro was forcing the boat owners to carry back with them not only their relatives but the dregs of his jail population |
In the opening we see a crawl text with narrator that reads: "In May of 1980, Fidel Castro in an effort to normalize relations with the Carter Administration opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the apparent intention of letting some of his people join their relatives in the United States.
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