Bossa Nova

BOSSA NOVA is a romantic comedy about several couples that break up or hook up in present day Rio de Janeiro. It is in this idyllic but "useless landscape" for lonely hearts that nine characters cross each other's paths and destinies, unleashing new passions. The epicenter of all this activity is an attractive English teacher, Mary Ann Simpson a former flight attendant and a widow who's been living in Rio for two years, since the death of her husband, a Brazilian pilot. Pedro Paulo is a lawyer who's… Show more also suddenly aware of the uselessness of the city's beauty when he witnesses the end of his seven-year marriage to Tania, who leaves him for a Chineses Tai-Chi-Chuan teacher. Pedro Paulo's father is a sophisticated tailor, the Argentine Juan, who has an atelier in the same building where Mary Anne's English School in located. A sliding elevator door puts a stop to both Pedro Paulo and Mary Ann's loneliness. They get close, unbeknownst to the fact that their lives will be even more intertwined with the interference of many other characters and incidents. Among Mary Ann's private students are the dreamer Nadice, who believes she's found the love of her life over the Internet. Mary Ann helps her student in keeping a virtual romance with Gary, a Soho artist with hair down to his waist, who fell for Nadine when she told him she'd won a Girl from Ipanema beauty pageant five years before. Her group of students also includes Acacio, Rio's biggest soccer scorer, who's been sold to an English team. He needs to improve his vocabulary so as to make himself understood, especially on the field. Gordo is Acacio's loyal manager and childhood friend, in charge of all the player's interests. Additional characters include Sharon, a snobbish, yet competent law intern, whose heart beats for Roberto, Pedro Paulo's brother. When Nadine decides to travel to New York to look Gary up, the travel agent who sells her airplane ticket is Tania, Pedro Paulo's former wife. Eventually, all of their liv

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