I Like It Like That (film)

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I Like It Like That
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Darnell Martin
Written by	Darnell Martin
Produced by	Ann Carli Victor De Jesus Wendy Finerman Lane Janger Stephen Lloyd Diana Phillips Tracy Leigh Vilar
Starring	Lauren Velez Jon Seda Rita Moreno Griffin Dunne
Cinematography	Alexander Gruszynski
Edited by	Peter C. Frank
Music by	Sergio George
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	October 14, 1994 (1994-10-14)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.76 million

I Like It Like That is a 1994 American comedy-drama film about the trials and tribulations of a young Puerto Rican couple living in a poverty-stricken New York City neighborhood in the South Bronx. The film stars Lauren Velez, Jon Seda, Lisa Vidal, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego and Rita Moreno, and was written and directed by Darnell Martin who, in her filmmaking debut, became the first African-American female filmmaker to take helm of a film produced by a major film studio.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]