''Perdona bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí'' (English title: ''Excuse Me Darling, But Lucas Loved Me'') is a 1997 Spanish

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso are a Spanish couple from the Canary Islands who work as screenwriters and film directors. They started with a theatre company and took some cinematography courses later. Sabroso worked as a television screenwriter an ...

in 1997. The film is an ensemble comedy in which the characters exhibited extreme stereotypes, causing some criticism that it exaggerated gay characters, to which the directors responded that heterosexual characters were also exaggerated and based on clichés. It was one of the highest-grossing Spanish films of the nineties, despite being filmed on a budget.

Synopsis

Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos, and Toni led a quiet existence without major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, their homosexuality, and debts. The debts finally forced them to rent one of the bedrooms of their apartment. Lucas moved in with his long hair, his charming smile, and his muscular body to completely change the life and direction of their home. Lucas turned up dead but ... Who killed him? All had reasons for doing so, or maybe not.

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* 1997 films 1990s Spanish-language films Spanish LGBT-related films Madrid in fiction 1990s Spanish films {{1990s-Spain-film-stub