Casa de mi padre

film by Piedmont [2012]

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Casa de mi padre (2012) is a Spanish-language comedy film starring Will Ferrell and directed by Matt Piedmont. The film is a parody of Mexican telenovelas and features Gael García Bernal as a fearsome drug lord. Ferrell and his collaborator Adam McKay produced the film through their company Gary Sanchez Productions.1

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Will Ferrell
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…parody The Other Guys (2010); Casa de mi padre (2012; “My Father’s House”), a Spanish-language send-up of Mexican telenovelas; the political satire The Campaign (2012); and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). The production company was also behind Funny or Die (funnyordie.com), a Web site that first garnered notice with…
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…parody The Other Guys (2010); Casa de mi padre (2012; “My Father’s House”), a Spanish-language send-up of Mexican telenovelas; the political satire The Campaign (2012); and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). The production company was also behind Funny or Die (funnyordie.com), a Web site that first garnered notice with…
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Gael García Bernal
…a fearsome drug lord in Casa de mi padre (“My Father’s House”), a send-up of telenovelas. In No (2012) he portrayed a real-life Chilean advertising consultant whose work on a 1988 television campaign was credited with influencing the results of a national referendum that effectively ended the rule of dictator…
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…a fearsome drug lord in Casa de mi padre (“My Father’s House”), a send-up of telenovelas. In No (2012) he portrayed a real-life Chilean advertising consultant whose work on a 1988 television campaign was credited with influencing the results of a national referendum that effectively ended the rule of dictator…
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