El año de la garrapata

2004
1h 27m

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Verónica Sánchez, Javier Veiga, and Félix Gómez in El año de la garrapata (2004)

Follows Fran, a young man obsessed with Eurovision, and his eccentric bunch of friends who live the most crazy and bizarre situations.Follows Fran, a young man obsessed with Eurovision, and his eccentric bunch of friends who live the most crazy and bizarre situations.Follows Fran, a young man obsessed with Eurovision, and his eccentric bunch of friends who live the most crazy and bizarre situations.

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5.9/10

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Awards
- 8 wins & 6 nominations total

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Goofs
Fran says that Can't Stop the Music (1980) was released in 1979. In fact, it was first released in 1980.

Crazy credits
Initial credits feature a scene in a supermarket with the actors' names next to their images, AND the crew as customers and workers, doing relevant things: Makeup designers trying makeup, hairdressers combing their hair, the sound technician shakes a can while hearing what happens (and then he steals the can)... Each with his or her name overimposed.

Connections
References Johnny Belinda (1948)

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Written by Giuseppe Verdi
Graación realizada por Orquesta Sinfónica de Radio Televisión Española (as la Orquesta de RTVE)

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7/10

Quite good

Although its premise didn't look too promising, "El año de la garrapata" is quite an entertaining and surprisingly well directed film. Lately teen comedies have been more full of bathroom jokes than of intelligent humor, and that's why my expectations were pretty low. However, I was pleasantly surprised.

Although the film presents an unbelievable and certainly not recommendable lifestyle (be a bloodsucker to your parents as long as you can) it does so in quite an amusing way. The cast is very good too, specially Félix Gomez, María Vázquez and Víctor Clavijo, the three of them extremely promising rising stars. Verónica Sánchez has been better both in cinema ("Al sur de Granada") and TV ("Los Serrano"), but here she looks rather absent-minded. Javier Veiga is a victim of miscasting, and he does as much as he can with his disagreeable character.

The only thing I can say is that I was amused all throughout the film. Maybe it's not high cinema, but it's a more than acceptable summer movie.

Overall rating: 7/10