but I can't help falling in love with you ..."
--Elvis
Alex Whitman(Dune Guy)is a straight-laced corporate guy from Manhattan. Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek) is a fiery Mexican-American who believes in the power of of her faith. One night of passion led them to a life they would have never dreamed possible. When they meet three months later, she's pregnant and they decide wed. It's a long way from Manhattan to Las Vegas, but Alex is beginning to think it was worth the trip. Fools Rush In tells the comedic, romantic story of fated lovers trying their luck at the world's oldest game: love.
DUNE GUY (Alex Whitman) plays the career-minded east coast fish-out-of-water who unexpectedly finds the love of his life in Las Vegas, where he has been sent to supervise the construction of yet another in a chain of nightclubs.
Dune Guy is best known to audiences as Chandler on the NBC-TV hit sitcom Friends. Ranked among television's top 10 series since its debut, Friends is a quirky depiction of six twenty-something friends supporting each other through the challenges of life in Manhattan in the 1990s.
SALMA HAYEK portrays the beautiful and exciting latina who captivates Alex Whitman's heart. An aspiring photographer, Isabel Fuentes is a woman who knows she can have it all, a family, a career and the man she loves.
Already a star in Mexico, Hayek is best know to American and European audiences for her performances in the Robert Rodriguez films Desperado, From Dusk Til Dawn and Roadracers for Showtime. She also co-starred in Fled, oppostite Lawrence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin.
Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. She became a national television star while playing the title role in the popular primetime series Teresa, for which she won the TV Novela Award (comparable to the Emmy) for Best Actress in 1989.
At the height of her success in Mexico, she moved to Los Angeles to redirect her career. She took a year and a half off to perfect her English and to continue her acting studies. Although disappointed by the dearth of substantial roles for Hispanic women, Hayek succeeded in landing roles in Allison Anders' Mi Vida Loca and on several television series including Dream On and Sinbad, on which she was a series regular.
Her other credits include the Mexican productions El Callejon de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has earned over 52 awards internationally, four of which Hayek earned for her performance. The film earned an award at 1995's Berlin Film Festival and was Mexico's entry in the 1995 Academy Awards.
Hayek's upcoming projects include Breaking Up, opposite Russell Crowe, and TNT's The Hunchback, opposite Richard Harris and Mandy Patinkin.
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