This independent feature by Jane Morrison views the migration of a Puerto Rican family to New York City through the eyes of a nine-year-old child, Angelita. Written primarily in Spanish (with English subtitles), The Two Worlds of Angelita centers on an issue that concerns the larger Latino working class in America--namely, the effect on the individual and the family of the economic and emotional insecurity that “the promised land” delivers--but its nuances are specific to the Puerto Rican community of New York's Lower East Side. Angelita (Marien Perez Riera) sets off with her mother for New York, where her “Papi,” Chuito, has found employment. His job falls through due to his lack of English, and though Angelita also has language problems in school, it is Chuito who finds adaptation the most difficult. It is obvious by the film's end that the family cannot survive his disillusionment. Village Voice critic Carol Cooper notes, “Fine acting throughout moves the story along with a wealth of smoothly telegraphed detail.... Angelita (is) surely the most unaffected preadolescent heroine to reach the screen in years.... (The children's) play and language are not sanitized and naive, but frank, coarse, mature--the tough lingua franca of today's children.”