A light heist movie aimed at Spanish-speaking U.S. audiences and decorated with a cross section of attractive telenovela stars, this good-natured genre piece gets the job done while sneaking in a couple of pointed observations about contemporary Latino immigrant life.
Slick professional thief Alejandro (Fernando Colunga) has a brilliant plan to rob oily, L.A.-based infomercial tycoon Moctezuma Valdez (Saul Lisazo), who made his fortune bilking poor immigrants out of hard-earned dollars they can't afford to lose on bogus weight-loss creams, cures for impotence and baldness, and, worst of all, Agua de Dios, piously packaged snake oil purported to cure...
Released:
2007
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins