''The Gap'' ( es, El boquete) is a 2006 Argentine comedy-drama film directed and written by Mariano Mucci. It stars

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and Daniel Valenzuela.

Synopsis

When paterfamilias Escarfase (Mario Paolucci) is released from

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, he's immediately roped into a caper designed by thick-headed Ruben (Luis Ziembrowski), using a seemingly abandoned house as the command center for tunneling into the neighboring bank vault. Also on board are Escarfase's hooker daughter Mirna (Valentina Bassi), whose participation in a

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takes up an indefensible amount of screen time considering the minuscule laugh pay-off. The opening promises more than it can deliver, but like the rest of pic, scenes start well and devolve into wasted footage. Bouncy music is used indiscriminately and, like the overly sunny lensing, gets tired quickly.

Overview

Two script docs are credited in "The Gap," but a whole surgical team is needed to excise overlong scenes and to substitute real laughs for the

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on display.

External links

* 2006 films 2000s Spanish-language films 2006 comedy-drama films Argentine comedy-drama films 2000s Argentine films {{2000s-comedy-drama-film-stub