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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 8 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.0/10. [7]Rubén Romero Santos of Cinemanía rated the film 3½ out of 5 stars, rallying laggards to join the Mario Casas bandwagon, highlighting the transformation experienced by the actor from Three Steps Above Heaven to The Paramedic, in which he plays a "wheelchair-bound ...
Instructions Not Included (Spanish: No se aceptan devoluciones, lit. 'Returns not accepted') is a 2013 Mexican comedy-drama film co-written, directed by, and starring Eugenio Derbez. The plot follows a Mexican playboy who is suddenly saddled with a love child at his doorstep, and sets off to Los Angeles to find the mother. Released in the ...
Villagers were cast as themselves, taking all but the principal roles and changing many of the scenes. During the scene in which townspeople lined up to state their hearts' desires, they ignored the script and asked for what they actually wanted. [3] Shooting lasted ten weeks with a production budget of $70,000 ($780,000 in 2022 dollars). [3]
[1] In addition, the review of Panorama magazine described the film as a simple imitation of Spanish "truculent" cinema, in the manner of Marco Ferreri's El cochecito (1960). [6] Despite the favorable critical reception, El dependiente was a box-office failure, as had happened with Favio's previous films. [7]
The other is the 1630 El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Guest of Stone), which is attributed to Tirso de Molina. Don Juan Tenorio owes a great deal to this earlier version, as recognized by Zorrilla himself in 1880 in his Recuerdos del tiempo viejo (Memories of the Old Times), although the author ...
For Cervantes and the readers of his day, Don Quixote was a one-volume book published in 1605, divided internally into four parts, not the first part of a two-part set. The mention in the 1605 book of further adventures yet to be told was totally conventional, did not indicate any authorial plans for a continuation, and was not taken seriously by the book's first readers.
Los Angeles is not the first city fans would associate with comedian John Mulaney. That would be Chicago, his hometown and the backdrop to innumerable childhood anecdotes in his stand-up act, or ...
It is set in the Spanish Civil War in Galicia, Spain, [2] and is based on the novel of the same name by Manuel Rivas; [3] the director read the novel at least seventy eight times. [4] The film got 171,325 spectators and was described as well-meaning and Manichean. [5] [6] Luis Tosar said that his part in this film was the most difficult role he ...