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Mood:
- SuspensefulExcitingAtmosphericRoughStylized
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Plot:
- Anti HeroesLone WolvesUnlikely criminalsOn the RunVengeanceViolence SpreeMistaken IdentityCrimes more...
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Genres:
- ActionCrimeIndependentThrillerForeign
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- MexicoLatin AmericaSmall Town
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedSundance Festival Winner
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticFast
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Flag:
- Strong Violent Content
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El Mariachi, 1992
Spanish
Mexico, USA
Profile of El Mariachi
El Mariachi can be described as exciting, suspenseful, and atmospheric. The plot revolves around unlikely criminals, a violence spree, and mistaken identities. The main genres are independent, action, and crime. In approach, El Mariachi is serious and realistic. The storytelling is fast paced. It is set, at least in part, in a small town. El Mariachi is located in Mexico and South America. It takes place in the 1990s. The movie has received attention for being a Sundance Festival winner and critically acclaimed. El Mariachi is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves strong violent content.
Summary of El Mariachi
El Mariachi (Carlos Gallardo) is a traveling guitar player with the modest desire to play music for a living. Looking for a job, he stops at a bar in a tiny town, where his simple, peaceful lifestyle is interrupted. Local hit men, expecting enemy assassin Azul (Reinol Martinez) to invade their town, believe that the visiting musician is the professional killer they are looking for. Unwittingly embroiled in vicious mob warfare, El Mariachi must shoot his way out of town if he is to survive.
Details
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Mexico, USA |
| Release date: | 4 September 1992 |
| Runtime: | 81 min |
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as El Mariachi
as Domino
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- by: Ty Burr
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
