Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It

I am a huge musical theater fan and grew up with my parents playing their “West Side Story” album constantly so I knew I wanted to see this documentary when I had the chance. Rita Moreno’s story from being born in Puerto Rico and moving to NYC at a young age to reaching stardom has a depth and richness I didn’t expect to learn. She was and still is a force with talents (singing, dancing, acting) that make her one of the few entertainers to have achieved EGOT status. But the complexity of this film is that it lets the viewer learn about the many challenges Rita faced from racial discrimination to sexual abuse to unfulfilling relationships.