Sometimes paradise has a price.
Following the suicide of his father, haunted by inner demons and his hatred for the world, Santiago decides to escape from Lima and take refuge in Máncora, a beach to the north of Peru where it is always summer.
Chester Creek
The film's tagline is: "Sometimes paradise has a price."
The production budget was $1.8M.
The runtime is 100 minutes (1h 40m).
The film features dialogue in 3 languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish.
It was a co-production between: Peru, Spain.
The film was directed by Ricardo de Montreuil.
The screenplay was written by Oscar Orlando Torres and Ricardo de Montreuil.
This title is listed on IMDb as tt1003023.
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Mixed
22 votes
Máncora
Released
R
English, Português, Español
Peru, Spain
$1,800,000
