Machuca (2004)
"Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile."
Critics Score
🎬 82%
(RT: 87%, MC: 76) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Matías Quer as Gonzalo Infante
Ariel Mateluna as Pedro Machuca
Aline Küppenheim as María Luisa
Ernesto Malbrán as Father McEnroe
Manuela Martelli as Silvana
Tamara Acosta as Juana
Francisco Reyes as Patricio Infante
Is Machuca good?
Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 82%.
Overview
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe. Wikipedia ↗
