Perfect Strangers (2017 film)

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Perfect Strangers
Perfectos desconocidos poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
SpanishPerfectos desconocidos
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
Screenplay by
Based on Perfect Strangers
by Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese, Paola Mammini and Rolando Ravello
Produced by
  • Álvaro Augustin
  • Carolina Bang
  • Ghislain Barrois
  • Kiko Martínez
  • Paloma Molina
Starring
CinematographyÁngel Amorós
Edited byDomingo González
Music byVíctor Reyes
Production
companies
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release dates
  • 28 November 2017 (2017-11-28)(Madrid)
  • 1 December 2017 (2017-12-01)(Spain)
Running time
97 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Box office$31 million [1]

Perfect Strangers (Spanish: Perfectos desconocidos) is a 2017 Spanish comedy thriller film directed by Álex de la Iglesia remaking the 2016 Italian film of the same name. [2] [3] [4] It stars Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Ernesto Alterio, Juana Acosta, Eduardo Noriega, Dafne Fernández and Pepón Nieto.The film grossed €18.9 million at the box office by February 2018. [5]

Contents

Premise

Seven friends decide to play a game at their dinner party, in which each member needs to read aloud all incoming text messages or put phone calls on speaker for all to hear. This causes many revelations to materialize, and challenges the "normal" of everyone at the dinner.

Cast

Production

The film is a Telecinco Cinema, Pokeepsie Films and Nadie Es Perfecto production, with the participation of Mediaset España and Movistar+. [6]

Release

Distributed by Universal Pictures, [7] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 1 December 2017. [8]

Box office

The film was the second highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office taking of €13 million from 2 million admissions. [9] The film also stayed as one of the highest-grossing Spanish language films of 2018 in Spain, and finished third grossing €9.2 million from 1.3 million admissions. [10] Worldwide it had grossed $31 million as of January 2019. [1]

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