''Sex, Party & Lies'' () is a 2009 Spanish

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film directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, starring

Mario Casas Mario Casas Sierra (born 12 June 1986) is a Spanish film and television actor. Known for his roles in Spanish cinema and television, he has received various accolades including a Goya Award, a Gaudí Award, and three Feroz Awards. In 2006, ...

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 de Armas Ana Celia de Armas Caso (; born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban and Spanish actress. She began her career in Cuba with a leading role in the romantic drama '' Una rosa de Francia'' (2006). At the age of 18, she moved to Madrid, Spain, and starred in ...

, Hugo Silva,

Maxi Iglesias Maximiliano Teodoro Iglesias Acevedo (born 6 February 1991), better known as Maxi Iglesias, is a Spanish actor, model, and television presenter. Career Iglesias was born on 6 February, 1991, in Madrid, where he studied at the Colegio Cardenal S ...

and

Alejo Sauras Alejo Martín Sauras (born June 29, 1979) 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 studied aviation electron ...

Plot

Cast

Production

''Sex, Party and Lies'' is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production. In December 2010, the Ministry of Culture of Spain—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 scrutiny 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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