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Rudo & Cursi
Even when your luck runs out, some things never change.
Even when your luck runs out, some things never change.
Comedy, Drama - 2008
Rudo & Cursi
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6.7
72%
67
Tato and Beto are poor stepbrothers living on a banana plantation in Mexico. Both are talented soccer players, but their dreams lay elsewhere: tone-deaf Tato wants to be a singer, while Beto is content to remain on the plantation. One day, a sports agent sees the two young men playing soccer and offers to take one of them to Mexico City for a chance at sports stardom.
Director:
,
Carlos Cuarón
Cast:
,
Gael García Bernal
,
Diego Luna
,
Jessica Mas
,
Armando Hernández
,
Iván Esquivel
,
Guillermo Francella
,
Dolores Heredia
,
Adriana Paz
,
Salvador Zerboni

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Details

Rated:
R
Runtime:
102 min
Release date:
19 Dec 2008
Country:
MX, GB
Languages:
Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 9 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
He's helped by charismatic, pleasingly ambivalent performances by all involved, and while a later penalty sequence is needlessly prolonged, it doesn't diminish the film's cumulative effect. Serious fun.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
3 Jul 2009
rotten:
Rudo y Cursi never quite figures out what it wants to be. Is it a sports comedy? A tale of sibling rivalry? A look at Mexico's gritty underbelly, set against a soccer backdrop?
– Calvin Wilson,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
17 Jun 2009
fresh:
Carlos Cuaron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Y Tu Mama Tambien, makes his directorial debut with this easygoing sports movie/family drama/musical comedy/crime story.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
29 May 2009
fresh:
[Has] a mess of cultural issues to reckon with, and Rudo y Cursi deals with them while offering an engaging rags-to-riches sports fantasy.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
29 May 2009
fresh:
Bernal and Luna have great sibling comic chemistry.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2009
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