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Summary
Although he always wanted to become a professional soccer player, El Chanfle has settled for being the props boy and water boy for Mexican soccer's Club América…
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
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- You want dark or edgy material
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 70GoodWatch 71
Audience score75%
IMDb6.5
Running time
1 h 46 min
A typical length for comedies, +6 min on the typical 100
typical 100106Half of all comedies run 91–111 min.
Reach
Streams in 18 countries
+8Released
1979
January 18, 1979
47 years ago
Genres
ComedyFamilyDramaLanguage
Spanish
Original language
Made in
- Mexico
and 7 more10 people
- Roberto Gómez BolañosEl Chanfle
- Florinda Meza GarcíaTere
- Ramón ValdésReyes
- Carlos VillagránValentino
- Edgar VivarDr. Nájera
- Rubén AguirreSr. Matute
- María Antonieta de las NievesMatutes secretary
- Angelines FernándezPaco's wife (Supermarket Clerk)
Raúl 'Chato' PadillaPaco
Horacio Gómez BolañosPoliceman (at Paco's house)
Directing · 1
- Enrique Segoviano Director, Writer
Writing · 1
- Roberto Gómez Bolaños Writer
Production · 1
- Fabián Arnaud Producer
Editing · 1
- Luis Sobreyra Editor
Sound · 1
- Ernesto Cortázar Jr. Music
Art · 1
- Fernando Ramírez Art Direction
Other crew · 2
- Abel Contreras Special Effects
- Fernando Colín Cinematography
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- El Chanfle (1979)
GoodWatch score 71You're here
- El Chanfle 2 (1982)
GoodWatch score 68Film 2
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