Directed by:
Jorge FonsScreenplay:
Vicente LeñeroCinematography:
Carlos MarcovichCast:
Salma Hayek, Bruno Bichir, Margarita Sanz, Juan Manuel Bernal, Luis Felipe Tovar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Gina Morett, Delia Casanova (more)Plots(1)
The story, based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel, Miracle Alley, takes place in a rundown neighborhood in Mexico City where three people's lives meet and intertwine. Rutilio, owner of the local canteen, finds himself frustrated in his marriage with Eusebia and discovers new yet strange personal feelings. The young barber, Abel, along with Don Fidel, are both in love with the beautiful and sensuous Alma (Salma Hayek), daughter of Cata, the tarot reader. Susanita, a dreaming spinster, looks for love but in reality falls prey to a thief. As their paths gradually cross, the characters are temporarily condemned to a tragic and solemn future. The desperate characters are struggling to escape their circumstances in any way they can but the only one thing they have in common is that, in the end, none of them gets what they really want. (official distributor synopsis)
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