12 Horas is a 2001 Puerto Rican

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 movie. It was written and directed by Raúl Marchand Sánchez, and marked his both his screenwriting and directorial debut.

The movie follows the lives of several characters during the course of a night in Santurce, Puerto Rico (hence the title referring to the time from dusk to dawn).

It had a six-week run in cinemas in Puerto Rico. Its profanity and sexual content were a definite deviation from the norm as far as the usual content of Puerto Rican films done up to that time.

Cast

• Patricia Alonso as Spanish Fly (drag queen)
• Jaime Bello as Gustavo
• Marcos Betancourt as Roberto
• Joe Blues as Radio voice
• Fernanda Bracho as Fernanda (drag queen)
• Cielomar Cuevas as Cristina
• Michelle Deliz as Virginia
• Rosabel del Valle as Kathy
• Juan M. García as Policeman
• Modesto Lacen as Asaltante
• Kidany Lugo as Jorge
• Flavia Manes Rossi as Jackeline Bom Bom
• Karla Marcano as Reina
• Louis Martinez as Cashier at mini-mart
• Charlie Massó
  Charlie Masso
  Carlos Javier Rivera Masso is a former member of Menudo who joined the band at the height of Menudo's world wide fame. He replaced Rene Farrait and quickly became a fan favorite with his participation on the albums of Es Por Amor and Vamos A Volar, which was the soundtrack of Charlie's first...
  
    as Abraham
• Yadira Nazario as Liza
• Sylvia Vargas Negrón as Roberto's wife
• Brenda Plumel as Mari
• Jorge Rangel as Charlie
• Daritcia Rivera as Paulina
• Wanda Rovira as Ada
• Anthony Stuart as Sr. beefeater
• Teofilo Torres as Antonio (as Teófilo Torres)
• Melisa Vázquez as Letty
• Ramon Vázquez as Bouncer
• Mahya Veray as Draga #2 - "c.c. red"

See also

• Cinema of Puerto Rico
  Cinema of Puerto Rico
  The history of the Cinema industry in Puerto Rico begins with the US invasion of the island in 1898. At that time, the American soldiers brought cameras to record what they saw. It was not until the 1912 that Puerto Ricans would begin to produce their own films.After this, Puerto Rican cinema has...
  
  
• List of films set in Puerto Rico
• List of Puerto Ricans in the Academy Awards