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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0634991182027
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lolafilms Home Ent
Manufacturer: Lolafilms Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lolafilms Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 53888
Studio: Lolafilms Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Una agente inmobiliaria con suerte... Un cadáver descompuesto... Una comunidad de vecinos codiciosos... 300 millones escondidos en el sótano... Algo huele a podrido en esta casa. Julia (Carmen Maura), una mujer de unos cuarenta años que trabaja como vendedora de pisos para una agencia inmobiliaria, encuentra 300 millones de pesetas escondidos en el apartamento de un muerto y no le queda más remedio que enfrentare a la ira de los miembros de una comunidad de vecinos muy particular, encabezada por un administrador sin escrúpulos. El humor negro deja paso al suspense, luego al terror y, finalmente, a la locura desencadenada.
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Rating:  - a horrible comedy
What people won't do for money.......
Carmen Maura plays a real estate agent who moves in for one place to the next, apartments that she should rent, but lives in. One day, the upstairs neighbor is found day, and while his dead body is carried away, his wallet drops. In it is a checkered map that leads to the discovery of several money bags. Neighbors discover this, and soon enough, they fight over them.
Good cast, good directing, but certainly not the comedy of the year. A very unoriginal script.
This movie IS a rather horrible comedy, close to a horror film in fact, but still quite enjoyable.
Rating: - murder and greed in Spain...not great, but pretty good
Alex de la Iglesia has forged a career out of making films that depict extremes (in many cases), and for my money his best is Perdita Durango (aka Dance with the Devil) with Rosie Perez and, in a somewhat early role, Javier Bardem speaking pretty broken English but insanely great.
This film, La Comunidad, is kind of fun to watch and does, to some extent, capture some of the director's spirit of the extremes, but is not as intense or riveting or downright fun to watch as Perdita Durango. It does feature Carmen Maura and she is, hands down, the star of the show--in fact, she's really good. It's not that the other actors aren't as good as she is--all of them do a fine job. It's really that the script is just not as powerful as it might have been. It does hold your interest but doesn't really grab it.
The story finds our heroine, Julia (Maura), a real estate agent, "usurping" one of her primo apartments for her own use with Ricardo, her husband/boyfriend (which is it? I dunno), and subsequently stumbling across the dead body of a really old guy. Later, having found a "clue", she puts two and two together, returns to the apartment of the old dead guy (who's now been carted off for burial), and finds a huge amount of cash.
The title refers to all the people who live in the building who know about the cash but could never find it and who realize that this new "neighbor" has found it. The black comedy hijinks that ensue form the substance of the film.
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Rating:  - great Spanish thriller-comedy
This is one of the best Spanish films over the last 5 years. It is funny and tense at the same time. All the characters are fun and Carmen Maura turns in another great performance. Based on the notion of a building's "community," (or bldg association) this film picks fun at the Spanish culture of nosy neighbors and apartment living. Director de la Iglesias also pays his respects to Hitchcock in a couple of scenes.
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