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Rudo y Cursi [DVD]

1 disc
Region 1 USA/CA (info)

Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN stars Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal reunite for this drama directed by Carlos Cuarn. Luna and Garcia Bernal take on roles as soccer-playing brothers whose fraternal bond is tested when they have the chance to play the sport professionally. RUDO Y CURSI (TOUGH AND CORNY) is produced by Alfonso Cuarn, Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, and Guillermo del Toro.
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- Rating - for pervasive language, sexual content and brief drug use
Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 31072
Credits

Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Guillermo Francella, Dolores Heredia, Adriana Paz, Jessica Mas
Critic Reviews

"RUDO Y CURSI scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural....Cuaron's rich narrative courses through an array of personal obstacles, all of them universal and readily identifiable."
Hollywood Reporter
3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a pleasure to watch the chemistry and engaging humor between actors who clearly enjoy each other's company....Such is the case with the Mexican stars of RUDO Y CURSI..."
USA Today
"[T]he arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy RUDO Y CURSI deserves a hearty welcome....RUDO Y CURSI pulses with life..."
Los Angeles Times
"RUDO Y CURSI is a sly miniaturist pleasure on its own terms, a piquant fable about the bouncing ups and downs of success, failure, competition, and comradeship." -- Grade: B+
Entertainment Weekly
"RUDO Y CURSI lives up to its name, as do its sweet and scrappy heroes....With a winning measure of swagger and style."
New York Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "This isn't a sports movie, but a human comedy, and depends on the effortless chemistry between Luna and Garcia Bernal, who evoke, like real brothers, the ability to love and hate each other and push all the right buttons."
Chicago Sun-Times
"RUDO Y CURSI begins as delightful satire of the tackiness and crass excess of the nouveau riche, blessed with the same loose, improvisational, French New Wave-inspired chemistry of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN." -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
3 stars out of 5 -- "Soccer provides the backdrop for this rowdy, ramshackle comedy....[G]ood-natured fun..."
Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n agreeably ramshackle football farce, directed by Cuaron's screenwriting partner and brother, that still says a surprising amount about the state of South America..."
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