Algoma International Film Association

Reviews:

Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile: “Writer director Carlos Cuarón has created characters that are so real you can almost hear their thoughts. Tato and Beto are filled with contradictions, faults, quirks and foibles, yet we like them and want them to succeed.”

Brian Orndorf, Dark Horizons: “Garcia and Luna share outstanding chemistry together, and provide Rudo y Cursi with a definite edge and generous spirit of bewilderment that keeps the picture engaging.”

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: “There are plenty of kicks: class struggle, wild crackups, Cheap Trick, occasional melodrama and lots of blackly comic moralizing on the lure and letdowns of modern Mexican celebrity.”

Official web site: www.sonyclassics.com/rudoycursi/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt040539

Rudo y Cursi

Year: 2008
Country: US/Mexico
Director: Carlos Cuarón
Leads: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Runtime: 103 minutes
Rating: R (language, sexual content, brief drug use)
Language: Spanish

Beto (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael García Bernal) Verdusco are brothers who work at a banana plantation and also play soccer for the village team. Beto wants to be a professional soccer player, while Tato aspires to be a famous singer; together they share the dream of building a house for their mother, Elvira. They have a change in luck when a soccer talent scout discovers them accidentally. At the very real possibility of fulfilling all of their dreams, the siblings must face an innate rivalry as well as their own demons and limitations.