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Nacho Libre is a 2006 American-Mexican sports comedy family film written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, and Mike White, and directed by Jared Hess. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic friar and secret lucha libre fan who moonlights as a luchador to earn money for the orphanage where he works.
The term libre (free) comes from from the Latin libris, from which is derived the English word liberty. If translated literaly, the name of the movie in english would be "Free Nacho" (as in freedom). There are many wrestling in-jokes spread throughout the movie, such as Nacho hitting Esqueleto with a bass, ala Jeff Jarrett .
The motion picture Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black as a priest-turned-luchador was inspired by the story of Father Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a real-life Catholic priest who wrestled as Fray Tormenta to make money for his church. [62] The documentary feature Lucha Mexico (2016) captured the lives of some of Mexico's well known wrestlers.
Jared Lawrence Hess (born July 18, 1979) and Jerusha Elizabeth Hess (née Demke, born May 12, 1980) are husband-and-wife American filmmakers best known for their work on Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre (2006) and Gentlemen Broncos (2009), all of which they co-wrote and which were directed by Jared (Nacho Libre was co-written with Mike White).
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An hour before his induction, the living lucha libre legend revived the Latino World Order, a group of renegade luchadores founded by his friend and longtime foe Eddie Guerrero in WCW. LWO: Latino ...
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Jackson Janshen (left, carried by his father, Ben Janshen), Joel Garcia and Ryan Garza pose for a crowd at the Nacho Libre look-alike contest at Produce Goods Micro Bodega in downtown Corpus ...