Born Romantic


Born Romantic is a 2000 British film directed by David Kane. The film is centered on a salsa club and depicts four love stories. Fergus is trying to find the one he left behind on the eve of their wedding, charmer and Rat Pack fanatic Frankie woos the beautiful Eleanor and the robber Eddie falls hopelessly in love with dowdy cemetery worker Jocelyn. Meanwhile, taxi driver Jimmy is transporting all of them and dealing with a love story of his own.

Plot

Salsa dancing and 'El Corazon', a London Salsa Club provide the backdrop for the love-inspired efforts of three unlikely romantics:
Fergus, who arrives in London from his native Liverpool, on a search for Maureen Docherty, the high-school sweetheart he jilted years ago.
Eddie, the incompetent mugger who falls for Jocelyn, the neurotic "absentee grave tender".
Frankie, a hopeless romantic trapped in the fifties and still sharing a house with his ex. He pursues the elegant and snobbish Eleanor, art restorer by day and Salsa dancer by night.
All are connected by Jimmy, a cab driver, and a place, 'El Corazon'.

Cast

The film features various London locations, including the interior of the British Museum.
The interior scenes of the Salsa club 'El Corazon' were filmed in a real Salsa club called the Loughborough Hotel in Loughborough Road, Brixton, South London, now a converted block of flats.
Also all the Salsa dancers were club members who participated in the film as extras.
The soundtrack includes a number of Latin dance hits: