''Sex, Party & Lies'' ( es, Mentiras y gordas, links=no, lit=Lies and Big Fat

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}) is a 2009 Spanish

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comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, starring

Mario Casas Mario Casas Sierra (born 12 June 1986) is a Spanish actor. He rose to fame in Spain with the television series ''Los hombres de Paco'' (2007-2010), and later in the film ''Three Steps Above Heaven'' (2010). Early life and education Casas was ...

Yon González Yon González Luna (born 20 May 1986) is a Spanish actor. He is probably best known for his performance as Iván Noiret León in the Antena 3 series '' The Boarding School'' (''El internado''), as well as for his role of Julio Olmedo/Espinosa i ...

Ana Polvorosa Ana María Ruiz Polvorosa (born 14 December 1987) credited as Ana Polvorosa, Ana María Ruiz or Ana Mª Ruiz is a Spanish film, theatre and television actress. Early life She was born Ana María Ruiz Polvorosa in Madrid, Spain on 14 December ...

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, Hugo Silva,

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and

Alejo Sauras Alejo Martín Sauras (born June 29, 1979 in Palma de Mallorca), is a Spanish actor who is best known as Raúl Martinez in ''Los Serrano''. Biography Sauras was born in Palma de Mallorca, Mallorca but he spend his childhood in Madrid. Sauras studi ...

Cast

Production

''Sex, Party and Lies'' is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production. In December 2010, the

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—then led by

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, who had been one of the co-screenwriters of the film five years before becoming minister—granted the film's producing companies €1 million, thus sparking a row of public strutiny and examination.

Release

The film premiered at the Las Palmas Film Festival in March 2009. Distributed by

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, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 27 March 2009. It opened with a box office gross of €1,813,000 in its debut weekend.

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* {{IMDb title, 0822833, Sex, Party & Lies 2009 films 2009 comedy-drama films 2009 LGBT-related films 2000s coming-of-age comedy-drama films 2000s sex comedy films 2000s Spanish-language films 2000s teen comedy-drama films Films about drugs Films directed by Alfonso Albacete Films shot in Alicante LGBT-related comedy-drama films LGBT-related coming-of-age films LGBT-related sex comedy films Spanish comedy-drama films Spanish coming-of-age drama films Spanish LGBT-related films Spanish sex comedy films Spanish teen drama films Teen LGBT-related films Teen sex comedy films Tornasol Films films 2000s Spanish films

Cast

Production

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See also

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