One of a new breed of films that sees a new New York, a city with subtitles. Someone Else's America is a quizzical love-letter to the American melting pot. It is directed by a Yugoslavian perhaps in search of any paradise of interethnic solidarity, who finds something like that in Brooklyn. Bayo (Miki Manojlovic) and Alonso (Tom Conti) are two hapless immigrants, Montenegrin and Spanish respectively, who would be perennial losers in any Old World. In the New, they have each other, and that thing called The American Dream to hex their ambitions and minor triumphs. Bayo is a casual laborer employed as a janitor in Alonzo's bar; Alonzo is a hopeless romantic. Both have mothers, and the mothers steal the show: the late Maria Casarès as Alonso's blind mother longing for the Spanish village they left years ago; and Zorka Manojlovic, Miki's real-life mom, similarly pining for, ah, yes, the goats of Montenegro.