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Machuca

Machuca

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-11

Languages:

Spanish, English

Countries:

Chile, Spain, UK, France

Runtime:

121 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (8515 Reviews)

Director:

Andrès Wood

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Brodsky

Mamoun Hassan

Andrès Wood

Fullplot:

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.

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