Nicotina
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Hugo Rodriguez
Diego Luna
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Carmen Madrid
Marta Belaustegui
Lucas Crespi
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds. Computer hacker Lolo is infatuated with his neighbor Andrea and catalogs her every move via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals Tomson and his younger counterpart Nene in a deal with a Russian mobster that involves the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts. But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's romantic trysts spiral out of control. Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto and his fed-up wife Clara get inadvertently entangled in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo and his domineering other half Carmen. Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears, computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have gone up in a cloud of smoke.
Director
Hugo Rodriguez
Cast
Diego Luna
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Carmen Madrid
Marta Belaustegui
Lucas Crespi
Jesús Ochoa
Rafael Inclan
Rosa Maria Bianchi
Norman Sotolongo
Crew
Sandra Cabriada
Antonio Chavarrias
Federico Gonzalez Compean
Fernando Corona
Alberto De Torro
Alejandra Dorantes
Marcelo Iaccarino
Laura Imperiale
Laura Imperiale
Mónica Lozano Serrano
Liliana Mazure
Martin Salinas
Martha Sosa
Eckehardt Von Damm
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer August 20, 2004
Limited Release in United States August 20, 2004
Released in United States on Video July 24, 2007
Released in United States November 2003
Film is budgeted at $1.8 million, with $700,000 coming from Fidecine, the state trust fund administered by Imcine, the Mexican film institute.
Film shot in real time.
Released in United States Summer August 20, 2004
Limited Release in United States August 20, 2004
Released in United States on Video July 24, 2007
Released in United States November 2003 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (International Competition) November 6-16, 2003.)
