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La Fiebre del Loco
Abalone Fever
Directed by Andrés Wood Written by René Arcos, Gilberto Villaroel Release date(s) October 2001 
Chile
December 2001
Cuba
January 2002
United States
January 30, 2002
Netherlands
April 16, 2002
Mexico
June 22, 2002
Poland
August 9, 2002
Peru
December 20, 2002
Spain[1]Running time 90-94 minutes Country ChileLanguage Chilean Spanish Budget Unknown La Fiebre del Loco[2] (Chilean) (Abalone Fever in Spanish) is a 2001 Chilean comedy.
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Plot
The film is about infighting between visiting prostitutes and their husbands' wives in a small fishing village in rural Southern Chile that has become greedy and crazy for Abalone.[3][4] In Spanish the word loco has the dual meaning of Chilean Abalone and crazy. The film's tagline was "Amor y avaricia en un mundo de buzos y moluscos" (Spanish for: Love and greed in a world of scuba and mollusks). The film's title in German was Das Loco-Fieber and English Loco Fever. In the film all hell breaks loose when the Chilean government temporarily lifts the ban on the collection of the Chilean abalone, a mollusk with aphrodisiacal effects.[5]
Cast
- Emilio Bardi... Canuto
- Luis Dubó... Jorge
- Loreto Moyo... Sonia
- Luis Margani... Padre Luis (Father Luis)
- Tamara Acosta... Nelly
- María Izquierdo... Leila
- Mariana Loyola...
- Patricia López (credited as Patricia López Menadier)... Isabel
- Carmina Riego
- Pilar Zderich... Denisse
- Aldo Parodi
- Julio Marcone... Yukio
- Cristián Chaparro
- Gabriela Medina
- Carmen Barros
- Marcela Arroyave
- Claudia Hidalgo
- Chamila Rodríguez
- Pablo Striano
- Camila Videla
References
- ^ Release dates access date August 9, 2008
- ^ La Fiebre del Loco
- ^ (Spanish)Muestra 'locuras' chilenas, access date August 9, 2008
- ^ Fiebre del loco, La, Internet Movie Database, access date August 9, 2008
- ^ VENICE FILM FESTIVAL : A New Wave:Movies Without Borders, by Roderick Conway Morris, International Herald Tribune, August 29, 2002, access date August 9, 2008
External links
Categories:- 2000s comedy films
- 2001 films
- Chilean films
- Films directed by Andrés Wood
- South American film stubs
- 2000s comedy film stubs
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