Machuca
“Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.”
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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Matías Quer
Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna
Pedro Machuca
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Ernesto Malbrán
Father McEnroe
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Federico Luppi
Roberto
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Manuela Martelli
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Tamara Acosta
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Francisco Reyes
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Alejandro Trejo
Willy
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María Olga Matte
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Gabriela Medina
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Andrés Wood Director · Eliseo Altunaga Screenplay Roberto Brodsky Screenplay
Worldwide gross $3.2M · Budget $1.5M · United States release February 24, 2004
Box office
Budget
$1,500,000
Worldwide gross
$3,187,700
Gross vs. budget
2.1×
Production
Tornasol Media
Production
Canal+ España
Production
TVE
Production
Invercine&Wood
Production
Paraíso Production
Production
Mamoun Hassan Productions
Production
Programa Ibermedia
Production
StudioCanal
Studio · Production
Ibermedia
Production
Televisión Española
Production
Tornasol Films
Production
Wood Producciones S.A.
Production
Chile · France · Spain · United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
English · Spanish
Release dates
Switzerland · February 24, 2004
Digital
United States · February 24, 2004
Theatrical
Hungary
August 9, 2006 · Digital
Ireland
June 3, 2005 · Digital
Poland
June 24, 2005 · Digital
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