brilliant actors, brilliant editing

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This film was filmed in the Dominican Republic you can even see it in the movie the artifacts and the people. This film was filmed in the, THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC in Santiago and also near where the sisters died. I absolutely love the movie its missing a lot more to the history things that Trujillo did, his plans to assassinate the president of Colombia and other countries as well. I love how they each look like the Mirabal sisters. Salma Hayek did an amazing job and this was how i first knew about her from acting in this movie. I didn't know that there was still one more Mirabal sister alive the youngest i believe and shes maintaining and taking care of the town they group up in and there gardin they played in when they were little. Giving the other kids knowledge of there History. They made a video Documentary of her and her life now after all these years. I love Dominican Republic and all of my people i think the biggest issue in DR is Haitian Immigration. Its gotten out of hand i hope it gets better in the future. I love you DR. RIP Mirabal sisters QUE VIVA LAS MARIPOSAS!

The narrative comment given on page 2 by "ABRAXAX" tells the story of the way things did take place, I remember my grandmother telling me in more details of everything that "ABRAXAX" says. But, my grandmother did tell me that not everyone know that the order to kill the sisters came from a relative of Trujillo; they blame Trujillo, but he was not aware of it; and he would not admit to that, since it would show that Trujillo was not able to control a few of this men. Also, somewhere on the 1st page of the comments section, some said that the CIA killed Trujillo; again, my grandparents told me "fueron los compadres" meaning his right hand men killed him; anyway, I haven't seen this movie and sadly I will not, since my sister tells me, "its not like grandma, told us" so I guess I don't want to spoil what I remember, at least for now; I guess I will watch it when I feel like watching a love story; like the movie Pearl Harbor. and again. I love that "ABRAXAX" summarized the story of Las Hermanas Mirabales :)

Many good books have been written about the brutal regime of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. Check Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" and Mario Vargas Llosa's brutal "Feast of the Goat" (also turned into a horrible movie). "In the time of the Butterflies" is one of the most successful commercially which is perhaps the reason Salma Hayek saw it as a star vehicle that preceded Frida.With a budget no higher than a telenovela, the movie focuses on Salma and tries to become a manipulative story of a strong Latina, but ends up becoming a "Like Water for Chocolate" wannabe with no real direction. And as history goes, I don't think a movie with a mostly Mexican cast, speaking English and playing Dominicans is taking history too seriously.

The movie In The Time Of The Butterfly was an excellent movie, I really enjoyed the fact that three women, sisters at that were able to stand out and speak up about how their dictator Rafel Trujillo was treating women in the Dominican Republic. Rafel Trujillo was a strict dictator who was cruel to his citizens.At the end the three sisters were killed because Rafel Trujillo but a hit out on them. I wanted yto cry because women had no respect after what they had done. Then Rafel Trujillo was killed afterwards by some men on a empty road. You should try to take the time out and enjoy the movie.