Thieves and Liars

Thieves and Liars (Spanish: Ladrones y mentirosos) is a 2006 Puerto Rican film directed by Ricardo Méndez Matta. It was Puerto Rico's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1][2]

Ladrones y Mentirosos
Thieves and Liars
Film poster
Directed byRicardo Méndez Matta
Produced byRicardo Méndez Matta
Poli Marichal
Written byRicardo Méndez Matta
Poli Marichal
StarringSteven Bauer
Elpidia Carrillo
Daniel Lugo
Alba Raquel Barros
Music bySuperaquello
Distributed byHBO
Release date
  • March 17, 2006 (2006-03-17) (Cleveland International Film Festival)
  • October 19, 2006 (2006-10-19) (Puerto Rico)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryPuerto Rico
LanguageSpanish

Plot

The film is set in the island of Puerto Rico. Because of its central location in the Caribbean, the island has become one of the main ports of drug entry from South America into the United States. The film follows the lives of three families in different levels of society affected by drug trafficking and crime in the island.

Cast

gollark: What?
gollark: (Sidenote: interestingly, apparently the development of farming actually led to significantly *worse* life for people for quite a long time, because it allowed much more population per land area, causing people to end up at a subsistence level and quite malnourished and stuff)
gollark: Modern supply chains are complex, and while we could not have those you would then lose out on stuff like microelectronics, medical things, and the economies of scale meaning you can have nice things cheaply.
gollark: How is that better? We need widescale coordination to do anything.
gollark: It's *great* if you like dying of otherwise preventable diseases, after a life basically free of any modern amenities consisting of... hunter-gathering, or whatever people did.

See also

References

  1. Sneider, Jeff (2006-10-19). "Oscar race counts 61 countries". Variety. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
  2. "Foreign language Oscar nominees announced". The New Zealand Herald. 2007-01-17. Retrieved 2008-06-22.


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