Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (1999)

Original title

Ratas, ratones, rateros

Directed by

Sebastián Cordero

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Ecuador

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In Quito, a young man caught up in petty crime is visited by his cousin, a fugitive ex-convict. Their reunion pulls the protagonist deeper into a dangerous world of theft and survival.

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What happens

Ratas, ratones, rateros (Spanish: "Rats, Mice, Petty Thieves") is a 1999 Ecuadorian crime drama film written and directed by Sebastián Cordero and starring Carlos Valencia and Marco Bustos. It was shown at the 1999 Bogotá Film Festival but did not receive a wide release until 2001. It was nominated for Best Film of the Year in 2001 by the Spanish Goya Awards. It was described as the first Ecuadorian film with international-standard production values. The plot follows the life of Salvador (Bustos), a young petty thief from Quito, after he is visited by his cousin Ángel (Valencia), an ex-convict with a bounty on his head. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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