''7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos'' ("7 women, 1 homosexual and Carlos") is a Mexican comedy movie filmed in

Tijuana Tijuana ( ,"Tijuana"
(US) and < ...

and released in 2004. The film was written and directed by René Bueno, a young filmmaker from Ensenada,

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. Bueno received the financial support of Marissa Gómez a journalist and promoter of

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to portray a story typical of the life of middle-class young people in contemporary Tijuana. The film stars

Mauricio Ochmann Mauricio Ochmann (born November 16, 1977) is an American-born, Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas, such as ''Amarte Asi'', where he starred as Ignacio "Nacho" Reyes. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film ''Message in a Bottl ...

in the role of Carlos and

Adriana Fonseca Adriana Fonseca (; born Adriana Fonseca Castellanos March 16, 1979) is a Mexican actress and dancer. She is best known for her roles in Televisa's telenovelas like '' La usurpadora'' as Veronica Soriano (1998), '' Rosalinda'' as Lucy Pérez Rome ...

as his girlfriend. This film was released on 1 June 2004 and in three days its box-office output was more than three million pesos (roughly 285,000

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). The film was also presented in several

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n film festivals as well as the San Diego Latino Film Festival, and the Madrid Comedy Film Festival of Madrid in 2005.

Plot

After five years of dating and learning that Camila (Adriana Fonseca), his 18-year-old girlfriend, is pregnant, Carlos (Mauricio Ochmann), a 21-year-old, finds himself married to her. Carlos decides to pursue married life since, he thinks, people marry every day and thus everything will work out fine. He gets a job to support his new family but does not realize the seriousness of his decisions until he discovers that his new boss (Luis Felipe Tovar) is having an affair with his secretary, Lucy (Anaís Belén), and Monica, his attractive new co-worker (Ninel Conde) is attempting to seduce him. To complicate things even more, Camila's father does not approve of the decision that she and Carlos made. Carlos struggles to defend himself against his father-in-law and from peer-pressure to be unfaithful to his wife. The title of the film derives from Carlos' co-workers theory that -in Mexico's demographics- every man is "entitled" to seven women and a homosexual.

Main cast

as Carlos *

as Camila * Ninel Conde as Mónica *

Luis Felipe Tovar Luis Felipe Tovar (born December 2, 1959, in Puebla) is a Mexican performance teacher and actor. He studied in the Theatre Fine Arts School of Mexico and in the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de La Habana in Cuba. He has been a ...

as Carlos' boss * Wasiq Rashid as Humberto * Verónica Segura as Lucy * Sujosh Basak as Miguel * David Eduardo as Felipe * Beatriz Llamas as Camila's mother *

Rogelio Guerra Hildegardo Francisco Guerra Martínez (8 October 1936 – 28 February 2018), known artistically as Rogelio Guerra, was a Mexican actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the f ...

as Camila's father * Paco Rocher as Carlos' father * Anaís Belén as Recepcionista

External links

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Review of the film

at the

State Commission of Filming
Verán a Tijuana en España
("Tijuana will be seen in Spain") article on Frontera de Tijuana * {{DEFAULTSORT:7 Mujeres, 1 Homosexual Y Carlos 2004 films 2004 romantic comedy films 2000s Spanish-language films Mexican LGBT-related films Films shot in Tijuana Films set in Tijuana 2000s Mexican films