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El Cortez (2006) -- A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
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Overview

User Rating:
5.4/10   372 votes
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Director:
Stephen Purvis
Writer (WGA):
Chris Haddock (written by)
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Release Date:
27 January 2007 (Hungary) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
Come to a place where secrets lie. more
Plot:
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale. | add synopsis
User Comments:
WTF is with the positive reviews? BAD Movie! more (7 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Lou Diamond Phillips ... Manny DeSilva
Bruce Weitz ... Popcorn

Glenn Plummer ... Jack Clay
Tracy Middendorf ... Theda
James McDaniel ... Arnie
Peter Onorati ... Carlo Russo

Shelley Malil ... Prison Doctor
David Johann ... Prison Guard

Robin Adair ... Cecile

Kathleen LaGue ... Waitress

Joseph Griffin ... Frank

Deborah Cresswell ... Hotel Clerk

Edoardo Ballerini ... Roy Morrison

Josh Estrada ... Sam

Pat Crawford Brown ... Helena
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Three for the Devil (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, sexuality, some violence and drug content.
Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Arnie: Junkie fever. Just think of it like you do Theda. Can't get enough, even when you got her. Theda's in your blood. Dreamland, Manny... You know where that is? You can think things, see things that are real. But they're not real... like a waking nightmare. more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
WTF is with the positive reviews? BAD Movie!, 3 December 2007
2/10
Author: abreland9 from United States

Pretty good actors; pretty good acting; TERRIBLE writing, and a story that is incredibly improbable (make that ludicrously impossible).

What? We were supposed to believe that all these characters just HAPPENED to be in the same place at the same time, and acted so implausibly? There's more logic in a David Lynch movie! And what's with the moral values? It's OK to kill people serially (multiple bodies in the mine, not to mention the cop and the drug dealer) to perpetrate a scam repeatedly -- because the dead people may be crooks, too? "Oh well, as long as EVERYBODY gets hurt." This was a truly bad movie (even though with actors I like -- shame on you Bruce and Lou or Diamond, or Lou Diamond, or whatever you go by!).

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