Based on a true story of a bungled video-store heist in Santiago, this was Chile's entry for the 1994 Foreign Film Academy Award. It's not a perfect film, but it is a taut, powerful crime drama as well as a thought-provoking, tightly scripted view of how one media event can have a huge
effect on a society. It's a better and more honest film than most of the fluffier European films that usually get notice from our Academy.
Under the cover of a video store, Don Alfonso runs an illegal money-exchange business. A gang of criminals breaks into the store. They don't know that Alfonso and the money are locked in a back room, so by the time they find it, the police and ...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins