At the End of the Tunnel (2016)

A paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.

Director:

Rodrigo Grande

Writer:

Rodrigo Grande

Stars:

Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago

4 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Leonardo Sbaraglia	...	Joaquín
Pablo Echarri	...	Galereto
Clara Lago	...	Berta
Federico Luppi	...	Guttman
Uma Salduende	...	Betty
Walter Donado	...	Canario
Laura Faienza	...	René
Facundo Nahuel Giménez	...	Schwarzenegger
Javier Godino	...	Zurdo
Ariel Nuñez Di Croce	...	Muñeco (as Ariel Núñez)
Cristóbal Pinto	...	Pichi
Sergio Ferreiro	...	Cristiani
Daniel Morales Comini	...	Cervantes
Juan Carlos Nozzi	...	Policía 1
Sergio López Santana	...	Policía 2

Storyline

Joaquín is a computer engineer in wheelchair trapped by the imminent foreclose of his house due to the debt with his bank. Trying save it, he rents one room to Berta, an exotic dancer, and Betty, her six-years-old daughter. Meanwhile Joaquín is blocked emotionally by the remembers of his wife and daughter, dead after an accident time ago, Berta lives with the drama of Betty, who two years ago stopped to talk mysteriously. Their at the beginning uneasy coexistence gradually softens, turning in a friendship and a love interest between them, when Joaquín accidentally discovers that a little gang wants to steal a bank it causes that Joaquín decides to watch them in secret. But Joaquín's plan crashes against a couple of secrets that will threaten all the plan provided.

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Plot Keywords:

robbing a bank | computer | tunnel | wheelchair | rain | 

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Taglines:

Arriésgalo todo. [Risk everything.]

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Genres:

Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Argentina Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

21 April 2016 (Argentina)

Also Known As:

At the End of the Tunnel

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Box Office

Budget:

€2,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Haddock Films, Hernández y Fernández Producciones Cinematográficas, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Joaquin has a statue very similar to the Maltese Falcon. One of the characters, Gutman, may very well be named after Kasper Gutman from the film The Maltese Falcon (1941).

User Reviews

Weak heist movie

Script by director Rodrigo Grande is so full of holes that the viewer's suspension-of- disbelief capacity is used up in the first few minutes. The always reliable Leonardo Sbaraglia manages to make something out of his character Joaquín, a paraplegic with a disconcerting ability to do heavy digging and crawl in tunnels, but all the other characters are built of tired clichés such as the heavies played by Pablo Echarri and Federico Luppi and the temptress in charge of Clara Lago. The heist planned by Joaquín is surely one the most sure-to-fail in movie history.

Grande's direction is fluid, cinematography by Felix Monti is very good and the sets are atmospheric, but the movie is terminally weighted down by the script. A miss.