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Loving Pablo (2017)

R10/12/2017Crime, Drama2h 3m
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A gangster. A princess. The true story of a most unlikely love affair.

Overview

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Javier Bardem

    Pablo Escobar

  2. Cast 1

    Penélope Cruz

    Virginia Vallejo

  3. Cast 1

    Peter Sarsgaard

    Shepard

  4. Cast 1

    Julieth Restrepo

    Maria Victoria Henao

  5. Cast 1

    Óscar Jaenada

    Santoro

  6. Cast 1

    David Valencia

    Santos

  7. Cast 1

    Mark Basnight

    Family Man

  8. Cast 1

    Joavany Alvarez

    Ignacio Velarde

  9. Matthew Moreno

    Pablito

A caption at the beginning of Loving Pablo informs us that “This film is inspired by real events. Some of the characters, names, and events have been fictionalized for dramatic purposes." What they don't tell us is that even the protagonists’ nationalities and languages have been changed. Colombians Pablo Escobar and Virginia Vallejo are played by Spanish actors speaking English – or, at the very least, trying to; Javier Bardem's English is atrocious and Penelope Cruz's is abominable, and their Colombian accents are just as bad, if not worse. To confuse things further, the characters occ...

Status Released

Original LanguageSpanish 

Budget$4,667,008.00

Revenue $17,535,962.00

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