Product Information
Walter Pool travels to Mexico in the footsteps of his hero Ernest Hemingway. He is robbed soon after his arrival and finds himself fighting for survival...Product Identifiers
ProducerMichael A. Candela
EAN5032192020158
eBay Product ID (ePID)3949119
Product Key Features
ActorJames Mcmanus, Eric Roberts, Joaquim De Almeida, Victor Rivers
Film/TV TitleLa Cucaracha
DirectorJack Perez
FormatDVD
Release Year2001
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama, General
Run Time90 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Number of Discs1
Additional InformationSavagery, betrayal, and revenge govern the desolate landscape of Perez's (THE BIG EMPTY) third film, a haunting, character-driven neo-noir spiked with black comedy. American ex-patriot Walter Pool is a broken man living in obscurity in a dusty tin shack on the edge of Santiago, Mexico. Writer's block prevents him from finishing -- or starting -- his novel, and alcoholism keeps him trapped in a nightmarish mire of dementia and squalor. Convinced he can sink no lower, he's resigned to waste away, imprisoned by the demons of his past. But when a mysterious stranger offers him $100,000 to settle a score with an alleged rapist, Pool is given a reason to live -- if it doesn't kill him. Winner of the Feature Film Award at the 1998 Austin Film Festival.
ScreenwriterJames McManus
Movie/TV TitleLa Cucaracha