- Americano (film)
Infobox_Film
name= Americano
caption = The movie poster for "Americano".
imdb_id=0368571
writer=Kevin Noland
starring=Joshua Jackson Leonor Varela Timm Sharp Ruthanna Hopper Dennis Hopper
director=Kevin Noland
music=Sebastian Arocha-Morton Peter Golub | distributor=MTI Home Video
released=January 7 2005
runtime=95 min.
language=English
movie_series=
amg_id = 1:342507
producer=Ruthanna Hopper Clark McCutchen Kelly J. Noland Kevin Noland Maricel Pagulayan Mark Edward Roberts Nick Satriano
budget=|"Americano" is a 2005 American film. The film stars
Joshua Jackson ,Leonor Varela ,Timm Sharp ,Ruthanna Hopper , andDennis Hopper . It was written and directed byKevin Noland .Plot
Chris McKinley (Jackson) is a recent college graduate backpacking through
Europe . He is trying to enjoy and gain as much as he can from his last days there before he starts his new career back in theUnited States . When he reachesPamplona along with two friends he meets a new trio of people. He meets an Australian thrill-seeker, a Spaniard named Adella (Varela), and a provocateur (D. Hopper). This new trio encourages McKinley to think about the life and path he has chosen to take and he does so. When the time for him to leave becomes close he must ponder whether he should take the road to his fast-track career or take a new path into his life.References
Throughout the film there are several references to literary works which parallel the themes of the movie. There are repeated allusions to the famous writer
Ernest Hemingway and to his novelThe Sun Also Rises . "The Sun Also Rises" is the story of a group of friends in Spain in the 1920s. Another reference is toHerman Hesse's tale of the buddha,Siddhartha , a story of sacrifice and a journey to finding one's self. The reference to "Siddhartha" is in one of the last scenes right after Chris and Adella had slept together. Adella is scanning through Chris' journal and finds a page with a summary of Siddhartha which discusses its main plot.
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