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| Director: | Álex de la Iglesia | ||
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| Cinematography: | Ángel Amorós | ||
| Editing: | Domingo González | ||
| Music: | Víctor Reyes | ||
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| Distributor: | Universal Pictures | ||
| Runtime: | 97 minutes | ||
| Gross: | $31 million | ||
| Country: | Spain | ||
| Language: | Spanish | ||
Perfect Strangers (Spanish; Castilian: '''Perfectos desconocidos'''|links=no) is a 2017 Spanish comedy thriller film directed by Álex de la Iglesia remaking the 2016 Italian film of the same name.[1] [2] [3] It stars Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Ernesto Alterio, Juana Acosta, Eduardo Noriega, Dafne Fernández and Pepón Nieto.The film grossed €18.9 million at the box office by February 2018.[4]
Seven friends decide to play a game at their dinner party, in which each member needs to read aloud all incoming text messages or put phone calls on speaker for all to hear. This causes many revelations to materialize, and challenges the "normal" of everyone at the dinner.
The film is a Telecinco Cinema, Pokeepsie Films and Nadie Es Perfecto production, with the participation of Mediaset España and Movistar+.[5]
Distributed by Universal Pictures,[6] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 1 December 2017.[7]
The film was the second highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office taking of €13 million from 2 million admissions.[8] The film also stayed as one of the highest-grossing Spanish language films of 2018 in Spain, and finished third grossing €9.2 million from 1.3 million admissions.[9] Worldwide it had grossed $31 million as of January 2019.[10]