Like a Bolt of Lightning
6.5
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle class life with his mother (Assumpta Serna), a successful lawyer and former feminist rabble-rouser, but has a gaping hole at the core of his identity: he has no idea who his father is. Preoccupied with the question to the point of obsession, he sets out in search of answers, and finds himself on a trail that leads to the Canary Islands.
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Cast
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Santiago Ramos
Rafael
Known for
Aquí no hay quien viva
The Heifer
Assumpta Serna
Sonia
Known for
Matador
Borgia
Miguel Hermoso
Rafael Díaz-Salgado
Manuel Corrales
Eloy Azorín
Pablo
Known for
Raising Voices
Grand Hotel
Miguel Ángel González
Sonia Grande
Héctor Cantolla
Ricardo
Known for
Ozzy
José Luis Olaizola
Also in
Dos mejor que uno
Joaquín Manchado
Chema Muñoz
Joaquín
Also in
Teresa de Jesús
Cervantes
Miguel Hermoso Director · Fernando Arribas Cinematographer Blanca Guillén Editor
First release November 4, 1996 · Produced in Spain · Production Canal+ España, TVE
Production
Los Films del Tango
Production
Canal+ España
Production
TVE
Production
Central de Producciones Audiovisuales S.L.
Production
Spain
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Original title
Como un relámpago
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Spain · November 4, 1996
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Romania
November 4, 1996 · Theatrical
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