Tijuana Makes Me Happy
6.2
“Happiness lies at the bottom of Tijuana.”
Every man remembers how hard it is being 15 years old: Your voice is cracking, your hormones are raging, school is boring, the girl you love is a young prostitute who won't go out with you because you don't have enough cash, so you start smuggling drugs across the border in order to save enough money to buy a rooster so you can enter a cockfight and win her love. It's a tale as old as time itself. Tijuana Makes Me Happy, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Slamdance Film Festival, is both a charming coming-of-age story and a celebration of the most infamous of all Mexican border towns.
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Dylan Verrechia Director · James Lefkowitz Writer Pablo Tendilla Rocha Writer
Budget $30K · United States release January 1, 2007 · Produced in Mexico
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Budget
$30,000
Production
25th Frame
Production · Distribution
Verrechia Films
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Palenque Filmaciones
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Mexico
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Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Mexico · January 1, 2007
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United States · January 1, 2007
Slamdance Film Festival
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