After being forced to sell his family ranch to developers, a financially strapped, but proud senior citizen, and his estranged grandson, find themselves targeted by drug dealers in search of... Read allAfter being forced to sell his family ranch to developers, a financially strapped, but proud senior citizen, and his estranged grandson, find themselves targeted by drug dealers in search of a missing money bag.After being forced to sell his family ranch to developers, a financially strapped, but proud senior citizen, and his estranged grandson, find themselves targeted by drug dealers in search of a missing money bag.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
- Ramond
- (as Eric Austin Williams)
- Bartender
- (as Marcos De La Garza)
- Yard Guard (Parking Lot)
- (as José A. Gavito)
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- TriviaBefore end credit: "In loving memory Christopher Bates 1968 - 2013"
- GoofsPart of this movie was shot in Brownsville, Texas, and the building architecture shown is obviously 20th century American and not Mexican. Also, the drawbridge across the Arroyo Colorado in Rio Hondo, Texas is supposed to be the bridge across the Rio Grande, but the minimal "guard house" style customs buildings shown are reminiscent of perhaps the 1920's, and are nothing at all like the enhanced security buildings and systems used today.
- Quotes
Red: Better to be an old man's darling than a young man's slave. You ever heard that?
Patty Wafers: [laughs]
Gally: Yeah, you know what else they said? The older they get, the better they were when they were young.
The chief draw of A Night in Old Mexico is the presence of veteran actor Robert Duvall. He certainly shows here that he still remains a very capable actor. It's a pity then that this film doesn't have a stronger storyline for Duvall to work off. It's effectively an odd couple movie, with a crime strand underpinning it. The first part works to a certain extent – Duvall's acting is good and the dialogue is often well written – but the dynamics between the three characters often seem a little forced, in particular it's quite hard really believing in the motivations of the Latina stripper character. The crime story, while fairly generic, does offer some potential excitement but it doesn't necessarily play out in such a way as to actually provide too much. Perhaps this is a good thing in some respects as it means that the film is maybe taking a different course to what you might typically expect. Whatever the case, the criminals operate in the background of the story and bump one and other off and they never really seem to pose that much of a threat to our heroes, which does dissipate the potential tension this could have created.
The location used by the story was pretty interesting though. The story takes place during the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday celebration. The purpose of which is to gather people together to pray for and remember friends and family who have died. This of course parallels the storyline of the film itself really well. Not only this but the strange skull-like masks worn by the townspeople as part of this celebration make for a somewhat memorable backdrop to proceedings, giving the film a nice distinctive feeling in this area. It's the specifically Mexican flavours that for the most part offer the best things about this flick.
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- Jun 22, 2014
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- Also known as
- Una noche en el viejo México
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $225,222
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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