

A Stroke of Luck
2016-12-02 · 90 min · ★ 5.0
Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.
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Production details
- Directors
- Nacho G. Velilla
- Production companies
- Aparte Producciones, Atresmedia Cine
- Countries
- Spain
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 3,500,000
- Revenue
- USD 12,304,617
Top Cast
Carmen MachiMari
Leo HarlemAnselmo
Carlos SantosRicardo
Salva ReinaNino
Jon PlazaolaCarlos
Boré BuikaPadre Benjamín
Arturo VallsCésar
Antonio PagudoJuandi
Jorge AsínPaco
Macarena GarcíaSole
Corina RandazzoMerche
Carmen RuizMilagros
Belén CuestaElisa
Goizalde NúñezCarmen
Yolanda RamosVisi
Julieta SerranoPetra
María CruickshankJezabel
Alina NastaseSimona
Javi CollÁngel
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