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7.7/10   199 votes
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April 1974 (USA) more
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The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years... more | add synopsis
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Great movie more (2 total)

Cast

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Claudio Brook ... Gabriel Lima
Rita Macedo ... Beatriz
Arturo Beristáin ... Porvenir
Diana Bracho ... Utopía
Gladys Bermejo ... Voluntad
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María Barber ... neighbor
Mario Castillón Bracho ... Undercover cop
María Guadalupe Delgado
Andrea del Llano ... clerk II
Alejandra Jiménez ... clerk III
Roberto Jiménez ... Trash man
Osami Kawano ... Yutaka
Cecilia Leger ... María Luisa
Inés Murillo ... Mother of Maria Rojo
María Rojo ... young at store
Emma Roldán ... clerk
David Silva ... inspector
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Castle of Purity (USA)
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110 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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15 out of 19 people found the following review useful.
Great movie, 6 January 2005
9/10
Author: Dharia Diaz (dancerfairy@yahoo.com) from Mexico City

Though recently in the Mexican movies we see basically the same kind of things like crossed stories or extremely "realistic" ones, or both, there are some things in the old ones that the new ones are forgetting: beauty. This movie is based in a true story where a man that is afraid to contaminate his family with the evils of the world (and actually he is already "contaminated", and very), decides to lock them inside their house for years, avoiding them any kind of contact with the world, even throw the windows. Not happy just with this, he makes the kids work in the family business that is making poison to kill rats. The characters are confocal created, ambiguous and confused, such as anybody is, and themes like loneliness or sexual curiosity in the kids while they are growing up is very well managed. However, even it is a sad story, it is so well treated, that it is beautiful. This is a movie that I would certainly recommend, specially because Mexican movies has not good fame.

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