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Patricia (Perla Faith) lives a miserable life: She's bullied at school,
she has hardly any money, and her father (Raúl Rodríguez) is a hopeless
alcoholic. Then one day she is raped, and when her father wants to come to
her rescue, the rapist kills him. The next day, her best friend, a Jewish
merchant, is found dead - which is a bit of a stroke of good luck, because
that friend has left her a fortune - which she plans to invest to get back
at the world that has wronged her. First she launches a counterattack on
the girls who have bullied her, then she plans to find the guy who has
raped her - but the only clue she has is that he has a very distinctive
scar on his back - which is not much of a clue, right? To find her
rapist, Patricia opens a stripclub (?) in which she also performs (!),
until the local mafia drops by to ask for protection money - but instead
of paying up, Patricia secures the help of one of the mafiosi (Ángel
Ramírez) to help her find the rapist with the scar. So the two of them
raid all the local fitnessclubs, hold the patrons at gunpoint, and
Patricia embraces them one by one to feel their backs for scars. Soon
enough that is no longer enough, and she starts sleeping with the patrons,
too ... Eventually, Patricia finds two old friends, Maria and
swimmingpool lifeguard Jimmy (Johnny H), and lets them into her life, her
as her personal assistant, and Jimmy as her lover. Little does she know
that Jimmy and Maria are actually a couple and are after her money. But
not only that, it was actually Jimmy who has raped her and killed her dad,
and only her love makes Patricia blind to the scar on his back.
Eventually, she does find out though and immediately goes into revenge
mode, and after a chase and fight, she has him at gunpoint ... but Héctor
(Guillermo Crespo), the detective who has been following her because he is
in love with her, prevents her from throwing her life away by killing him
... A film made within the Puerto Rican community in New York, Tigresa
is a weird hybrid of sexploitation (there is lots of nudity in this one),
a dime novel plot, and avant garde filmmaking. All of this of course
doesn't add up to a masterpiece, actually it's still a pretty trashy film,
it was made on the cheap, was badly scripted, the actors are not all up to
their roles, and it suffers from some serious shortcomings in the editing
department, but still, in its total disregard of genre boundaries, it's
quite an interesting ride.
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