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UN PADRE NO TAN PADRE (THE PATRIARCH)
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Completed - SPANISH - Comedy - 94 minutes

Log Line

Set in the stately and majestic colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, this comedy tracks an old fashioned Mexican patriarch who gets kicked out of his retirement home for bad behavior. When his estranged son is forced to take him into the house full of hippies shared with his girlfriend and son.

Previous markets

  • Cannes 2017 (Debut)
Full history

Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Raúl MARTINEZ
Writer(s) : Alberto BREMER
Cast : Héctor BONILLA, Benny IBARRA DE LLANO, Jacqueline BRACAMONTES, Sergio MAYER MORI

Producer(s) : Gerardo GATICA, Alberto MUFFLEMANN, Moises COSIÓ, Anant SINGH (Distant Horizon), Brian COX (Distant Horizon)

Synopsis

Set in the stately and majestic colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, this quirky
comedy tracks an old fashioned Mexican patriarch who gets kicked out of his retirement home for bad behavior. When his estranged son is forced to take him into the house full of hippies he shares with his girlfriend and young son. “New Age” collides with old age as the old man and his son experience a series of conflicts and situations that puts their home’s stability in jeopardy. UN PADRE NO TAN PADRE is a story about family: the one we are born into and the one we create along the way.

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Country(ies) : MEXICO


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