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El año de la garrapata (2004)
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Carlos Portela (screenplay)
Release Date:
20 August 2004 (Spain)
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Si no sabes qué hacer con tu vida, lo mejor es no hacer nada. [If you don't know what to do with your life, the best thing is to do nothing]
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Handicapped
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Pinball Machine
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Félix Gómez | ... | Fran | |
| Javier Veiga | ... | Morgan | |
| Verónica Sánchez | ... | Ana | |
| María Vázquez | ... | Patricia | |
| Víctor Clavijo | ... | Lito | |
| Camila Bossa | ... | Rosa | |
| Mela Casal | ... | Madre de Fran | |
| Celso Parada | ... | Padre de Fran | |
| Josefina Gómez | ... | Abuela de Fran | |
| Rosa Álvarez | ... | Amiga [de] Montse | |
| Elina Luaces | ... | Madre de Morgan | |
| Manuel Millán | ... | Hombre 1 | |
| Mariana Carballal | ... | Mujer 1 | |
| Ernesto Ferro | ... | Hombre 2 | |
| Marta Pazos | ... | Laura |
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87 min | Argentina:105 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Fran says that Can't Stop the Music (1980) was released in 1979. In fact, it was first released in 1980.
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Spoofs The Matrix (1999)
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BÉSAME
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Although its premise didn't look too promising, "El año de la garrapata" is quite an entertaining and surprisingly well directed film. Lately teen comedies have been more full of bathroom jokes than of intelligent humor, and that's why my expectations were pretty low. However, I was pleasantly surprised.
Although the film presents an unbelievable and certainly not recommendable lifestyle (be a bloodsucker to your parents as long as you can) it does so in quite an amusing way. The cast is very good too, specially Félix Gomez, María Vázquez and Víctor Clavijo, the three of them extremely promising rising stars. Verónica Sánchez has been better both in cinema ("Al sur de Granada") and TV ("Los Serrano"), but here she looks rather absent-minded. Javier Veiga is a victim of miscasting, and he does as much as he can with his disagreeable character.
The only thing I can say is that I was amused all throughout the film. Maybe it's not high cinema, but it's a more than acceptable summer movie.
Overall rating: 7/10