In the Heights is a love letter to New York City’s Latinx and Caribbean communities. Based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2008 Broadway musical of the same title, the movie follows Usnavi de la Vega (Anthony Ramos) as he tries to save his local bodega from the claws of gentrification. The musical cemented Miranda’s status as a mainstay of the Broadway world, and later Hollywood, because of its rule-breaking approach that injected his Washington Heights.