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Elsa & Fred (2005)
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Original name: Elsa y Fred
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When the retired seventy-seven years old hypochondriac widower Fred moves to an apartment in Madrid, his temperamental daughter Cuca has an incident with his next door neighbor, the elder Argentinean Elsa. Later, they meet each other and Elsa seduces Fred with her reckless behavior and view of life and they have a romance.
Style:
touching, sentimental, humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, elderly lovers, couples, fall in love, starting over, self fulfillment, aging, golden years, dying woman, destiny, family relations, love and romance, father daughter relationship, widower, widow, loss of wife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, compulsive liar, love, mother son relationship, opposites attract, woman driver, romance
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
spain
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Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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