Synopsis
Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans. A friendly game of soccer leads to first Rudo, then to Cursi being taken on by the nation’s top talent scout. Suddenly, they find themselves living the high life of star athletes: fame, fortune, fast cars and beautiful women.
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Cast
- Gael García BernalTato
- Diego LunaBeto
- Guillermo FrancellaBatuta
- Dolores HerediaElvira
- Adriana PazToña
- Jessica MasMaya
- Salvador ZerboniJorge W
- Tania Esmeralda AguilarNadia
- Joaquín CosíoArnulfo
- Alfredo AlfonsoDon Casimiro
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
The intimate movie hums with a back-in-the-hood vibe that gets the two stars playing contentedly, and delightfully, for the love of local filmmaking. - 80
Village Voice
Rudo y Cursi is as fatalistic as any film noir, but it's played for cartoonish screwball comedy. At once smooth and frantic, filled with cozy clutter and vulgar jive, the movie subsumes its moralizing in frat-house entertainment. - 80
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Cuarón directs with a hand that's as sure as it is deft. The music is terrific, though I can't say the same for the fusty subtitles, and Adam Kimmel's cinematography bathes the movie's cheerful absurdities in a beautiful glow. - 75
The A.V. Club
Carlos Cuaron's otherwise terrific new comedy Rudo Y Cursi barely survives its third-act "Goodfellas" descent into seedy coke-and-crime drama. - 75
Rolling Stone
Luna and García Bernal display the kind of chemistry that makes you overlook the clichés in the script by first-time director Carlos Cuarón. Sometimes good-natured fun is enough. - 75
USA Today
Rudo y Cursi (which roughly translates to tough and corny) is more raucous and slight than the contemplative "Y Tu Mama," but it is an undeniably entertaining rags-to-riches-to-rags comedy. - 70
Film Threat
What Cuarón and friends have done is made a cute genre film. What's the harm in that? I’m sure Bernal will be back to his edgy roots soon enough. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Rudo y Cursi scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural.
