Summary
The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),
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- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 70GoodWatch 70
Audience score79%
IMDb6.9
Letterboxd · 1 K ratings3.1/5
Running time
1 h 33 min
Shorter than most dramas, −16 min on the typical 109
typical 10993Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries, rent or buy in 1 more
Released
2005
April 20, 2005
21 years ago
Genres
DramaFantasyRomanceLanguage
Spanish
Original language
Made in
France
Cuba
Directing · 2
- Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Director, Writer
- Iraida Malberti Cabrera Director
Writing · 1
- Manuel Rodríguez Writer
Production · 6
- Dante Di Loreto Executive Producer
- Inti Herrera Executive Producer
- John Della Penna Executive Producer
- Eric Brach Executive Producer
- Michael Cortese Executive Producer
- Nicolas Duval Adassovsky Producer
Camera · 1
- Alejandro Pérez Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Sylvie Landra Editor
- Angélica Salvador Editor
Sound · 2
- Slim Pezin Original Music Composer
- Amaury Ramírez Malberti Original Music Composer
Art · 1
- Guillermo Ramírez Malberti Production Design
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