Saving Private Perez (2011)

A Mexican crime lord is forced by his mother to plan a suicidal rescue mission to find his lost brother in the most unexpected place on Earth...

Director:

Beto Gómez

Writers:

Francisco Payó González, Beto Gómez

Stars:

Miguel Rodarte, Jesús Ochoa, Joaquín Cosio

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Miguel Rodarte	...	Julián Pérez
Jesús Ochoa	...	José María 'Chema' Díaz
Joaquín Cosio	...	Rosalío Mendoza
Gerardo Taracena	...	Carmelo Benavides
Rodrigo Oviedo	...	Juventino Rodríguez 'Pumita'
Marius Biegai	...	Sasha Boginski
Jaime Camil	...	Eladio
Adal Ramones	...	Benito García
Isela Vega	...	Doña Elvira de Pérez
Juan Carlos Flores	...	Juan Pérez
Alexander Minchenko	...	Yuri
Randy Vasquez	...	Lt. Diaz
Kaveh Parmas	...	Ahmed Kubba
Agustín Tapia	...	Angel Exterminador (as Agustín 'Oso' Tapia)
Guillermo Quintanilla	...	Delfino

Storyline

A Mexican crime lord is forced by his mother to plan a suicidal rescue mission to find his lost brother in the most unexpected place on Earth...

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Plot Keywords:

rescue | mission | rescue mission | flashback | conflicted hero | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Western

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence and brief strong language

Did You Know?

Trivia

The song that Sasha Boginski's character is listening in his car at his arrival at the Istanbul airport is "Manocero (Ich Heisse Garigol)" by Mexican rock band Garigoles. The band's leader, Jobo Panteras, also directed the making-of the movie, and a video clip of "Manocero (Ich Heisse Garigol)", with actor Marius Biegai as his Sasha Boginiski's character singing with Garigoles, was released as an exclusive promotional material in Itunes prior to the U.S. release of "Saving Private Pérez".

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Connections

References Saving Private Ryan (1998)

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Soundtracks

Corazón negro
Written by Horacio Palencia
Performed by Chavela Vargas
Disquera: Registro Escalar S.A. de C.V.
Editora: Universal Music Publishing MGB S.A. de C.V.

User Reviews

A great parody

I guess this is the best movie I've watched far away about the middle east war. Isn't just funny and maintain you in the screen all the time, but also is a very interesting parody of the American heroes movies, specially because there aren't as bad movies as war American movies where everything goes alright and the soldiers save the world -well everybody knows the epilogue of those movies-, so this parody do the exercise of expose the ridiculous American war movies taking an amazing topic: a main leader of the Mexican north narco mafia in the search - with some "bullies"- of his brother in the main center of the conflict in Irak. This "narcocomand" goes to war to release an American soldiers hostages that even the American troops can release so is really hilarious the way that the movie goes developing across the history to reach a good level of sarcasm and irony of those absurd and boring American war movies. An 8 because of course is not The Godfather, but this director should keep doing this kind of works and not be afraid of expose the typical stupid Hollywood movies. It worth it.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site (English) Official site (Spanish)

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

2 September 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Saving Private Perez

Filming Locations:

Coahuíla, Mexico

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$664,517, 4 September 2011

Gross USA:

$1,400,726

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$9,330,465

Company Credits

Production Co:

Salamandra Films, Lemon Studios, Terregal Films

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1