''Bésame En La Boca'' is a 1995 Mexican

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film directed and written by Abraham Cherem and Ricardo Del Rio, and produced by

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and

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. The film stars Latin pop singer

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, actors

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, and Leonardo García. The film was produced by Televicine and released on June 23, 1995 in Mexico. The plot centers on one young girl as she take an ancestral travel and changes body, finding herself and real love in the process. Development on the film began in 1994, when Rubio created a concept inspired by

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's film '' Heaven Can Wait'' (1978) and

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's '' Here Comes Mr. Jordan'' (1941), which was later expanded by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach. Principal filming began in November 1994, and encompassed over a period of two months. Critics gave mixed reviews to ''Bésame En La Boca''; however, they considered it a better effort of Rubio as actress. Despite the film's response from critics, it was a box office success, Staying on the main billboard for six weeks. According to the website staff of the newspaper ''

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'', at that time the film "brought thousands of young people to theaters to enjoy 'La Chica Dorada' ubio who at that time had already placed his first hit "Mío", and

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Colunga, who was beginning to emerge as a telenovelas actor."

Synopsis

Claudia (

) is a rich and selfish girl who, after discovering that her boyfriend Arturo (

) cheated on her with the promise of making her a famous singer, suffers an accident in which she dies. However, when he arrives in heaven two little angels realize that she should not have died and sends her back to Earth, but with the body and life of someone else ...

Cast

as Claudia Romero / Mónica González *

as Eduardo *

as Arturo *

* 1948 births Living ...

as Consuelo *

as ''La abuela'' * Kenia Gazon as Elvira * René Pereyra as Alejandro * Moisés Iván Mora as Jean * Leonardo García as Pedro (''El Chofer'') * Richard Voll as Dylan * Claudia Ortega as Mónica González * Daniel Havid as Benjamín * Alejandra Padro as Andrea * Chucho Reyes as Jesús ''(Barman)'' *

as ''Gerente de la disuera''

External links

Bibliography

* Raúl Miranda Flores, ''Del quinto poder al séptimo arte: la producción fílmica de Televisa'' CONACULTA/Cineteca Nacional, 2006

References

{{Paulina Rubio 1995 films 1995 comedy-drama films Mexican comedy-drama films 1990s Mexican films