Lake Tahoe (2009)

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TRIVIA

After directing numerous music videos, Fernando Eimbcke wrote and directed his first Feature Film TEMPORADA DE PATOS (DUCK SEASON).

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2009-07-10 - NY and/or LA
• Distributor(s): Film Movement
• Film Genre(s): Coming-of-Age, Dramedy
• Country: Mexico
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SYNOPSIS

In an attempt to escape from a home where sorrow reigns, Juan, a sixteen year old boy, crashes his family’s car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town. Juan calls home where his younger brother Joaquín tells him that their mother is still locked in the bathroom. As Juan scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix the car, he meets Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog and Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her real place in life is as a lead singer in a punk band. Neither colorful character has the part to fix his car so he must wait for “The One who Knows” a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. The absurd and bewildering worlds of these characters drag Juan into a one day journey in which he will come to accept an event as natural and inexplicable as death.

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