Tijuana Makes Me Happy
Spain title: Tijuana me hace feliz
Original title: Tijuana Makes Me Happy
Original title: Tijuana Makes Me Happy
Tragicomedy – Mexico
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 79 minutes
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 79 minutes
Director: Dylan Verrechia
Writer: Dylan Verrechia, James Lefkowitz
Writer: Dylan Verrechia, James Lefkowitz
Movie description:
A boy will do anything to become a man and win the heart of a young prostitute ... even fight his rooster.
This is a coming of age story based on the real lives of Indio and his dad, who play the real-life characters with authentic performances.
Indio is a fourteen-year-old-boy who lives in Playas de Tijuana. Every day after school, Indio works at Sacramento’s ranch in the hopes of buying his own cockfighting rooster, el Gyro. When his dad refuses to help him buy the rooster, Indio starts selling empanadas and washing cars. One day, after he skips school to play with his friends, Indio meets Brianda, a young prostitute working in the red light district. As time passes, Indio learns what it means to make money, a tough journey that takes him cross the border, from Montes Olímpicos to San Diego. Greed however takes the best of Indio; neglecting his rooster, he fights el Gyro to win over the love of Brianda.
Indio is growing up with a poor family in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Cockfighting is still a popular and lucrative sport in Tijuana, and Indio thinks he has what it takes to train a champion bird. As a present for his fifteenth birthday, Indio asks his father Jhonny to get him a rooster that’s up for sale from a local breeder who has helped spawn some winning birds.
However, Jhonny can’t afford the rooster, and instead buys his son an evening with Brianda, a teenage prostitute. While Indio and Brianda strike up a brief romance, he’s not about to give up his ambitions of training a winning rooster, and takes whatever odd jobs he can find to help raise the cash – everything from washing cars to working as a drug mule.
This is a coming of age story based on the real lives of Indio and his dad, who play the real-life characters with authentic performances.
Indio is a fourteen-year-old-boy who lives in Playas de Tijuana. Every day after school, Indio works at Sacramento’s ranch in the hopes of buying his own cockfighting rooster, el Gyro. When his dad refuses to help him buy the rooster, Indio starts selling empanadas and washing cars. One day, after he skips school to play with his friends, Indio meets Brianda, a young prostitute working in the red light district. As time passes, Indio learns what it means to make money, a tough journey that takes him cross the border, from Montes Olímpicos to San Diego. Greed however takes the best of Indio; neglecting his rooster, he fights el Gyro to win over the love of Brianda.
Indio is growing up with a poor family in the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Cockfighting is still a popular and lucrative sport in Tijuana, and Indio thinks he has what it takes to train a champion bird. As a present for his fifteenth birthday, Indio asks his father Jhonny to get him a rooster that’s up for sale from a local breeder who has helped spawn some winning birds.
However, Jhonny can’t afford the rooster, and instead buys his son an evening with Brianda, a teenage prostitute. While Indio and Brianda strike up a brief romance, he’s not about to give up his ambitions of training a winning rooster, and takes whatever odd jobs he can find to help raise the cash – everything from washing cars to working as a drug mule.
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