Nicotina

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Nicotina
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Directed byHugo Rodríguez
Written byMartín Salinas
Produced byLaura Imperiale
Monica Lozano Serrano
Starring Diego Luna
CinematographyMarcelo Iaccarino
Edited byAlberto de Toro
Music by Fernando Corona
Distributed byArenas Group
Release date
  • 3 October 2003 (2003-10-03)
Running time
93 minutes
CountriesMexico
Argentina
LanguageSpanish
Budget$446,768

Nicotina (English: Nicotine) is a six-time Ariel Award winning and six-time nominated 2003 Mexican-Argentine [1] gangster film produced by the same team as the 2000 acclaimed film Amores perros. It is a "real time movie". [2] [3]

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Plot

Lolo is a male computer science geek who tangles with a clutch of the Russian mafia, when he delivers the wrong computer disk to them and with the disastrous results of drugs and smoking tobacco. [4]

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References

  1. Nicotina, Vincenzo Panza, Filmreporter.de (in German), Access date: 31 May 2022
  2. Nicotina, Tv-guide, 2003
  3. Nicotina, Filmelier, Access date: 31 May 2022
  4. Nicotina (2003) - Review, Cinematic Diversions, Julian Kennedy, 06 August 2020