In the Time of the Butterflies (film)

In the Time of the Butterflies
Directed by	Mariano Barroso
Written by	Julia Álvarez Judy Klass David Klass
Produced by	Helen Barlett Helen Buck Bartlett Tony Bill Ellen Gordon Salma Hayek
Starring	Salma Hayek Edward James Olmos Mía Maestro Demián Bichir Pilar Padilla Lumi Cavazos Geraldine Bazán Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. Ana Martín Marc Anthony
Cinematography	Xavier Pérez Grobet
Edited by	Pablo Blanco
Music by	Van Dyke Parks
Production companies	Showtime Networks Ventanarosa
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	October 21, 2001 (2001-10-21)
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	United States Mexico
Languages	English Spanish

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso and based on Julia Álvarez's book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960.

In the film, Salma Hayek played one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo. Marc Anthony has a minor role as Minerva's first love, and the impetus for her later revolutionary activities.^[1]