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Zuquillo Exprés

2010 · 93 min

A warm, bittersweet comedy about friendship and hard choices, with a gentle human touch.

Directed by
Carl West
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Martha de Salas, Mabel Cabrera Sanchez, Marcela Campos
Overview
The Zuquillos are four women who have worked for several years in a popular grocery market in the city of Quito, a place where they have cultivated a great friendship. One day, the entire market collapses due to its dire conditions, leaving the main characters without a place of work and in an agonizing situation about their future. So Charo decides to migrate to the United States, where his sister lives, but they deny him a visa at the American consulate. Desperate, she goes to a smuggler and asks him to make her enter the northern country illegally to achieve the American dream.

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Directed by
Carl West
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Martha de Salas, Mabel Cabrera Sanchez, Marcela Campos
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    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • friendship
    • immigration
    • survival
    • ambition
    Places
    • big city
    • road trip
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror0
    Humour6
    Realism7
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    Carl West
    Written by
    Luis Miguel Campos
    Starring
    Martha de Salas, Mabel Cabrera Sanchez, Marcela Campos, Eduardo Mosquera, Cristina Terán, Jalál DuBois, Lucía Perez
    Runtime
    93 min
    Country
    Ecuador
    Languages
    Spanish

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