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Film Analysis: Instructions Not Included
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Instructions Not Included, is a comedy film that is in Spanish and English. This movie takes place in Los Angeles, California. The director/producer of this film is Eugenio Derbez.
In this film there is basically two main characters. The characters are Maggie (Loreto Peralta) and the father Valentin (Eugenio Derbez). It all starts six year ago when Julie ( Jessica Lindsey) left her daughter in Valentin’s hands and ran away. Julie is a women that want to make a career in New York City. Maggie is the daughter of Valentin and Julie. Valentin is an immigrant man that comes to Los Angeles to find Julie and give her; her daughter back.Then there is Frank Ryan ( Daniel Raymont) who acts as a famous film director and contracts Valentin as a stunt man. When he sees Valentin jump of eight stories to save his daughter from drowning. Later on in the film their Jackie (Karla Souza) who poses as Julie's new partner from New York City.
The film is made by using motion pictures. Also this film took place in Los Angeles and Acapulco. The film was distributed by the Pantelion film production. For is movie to have a lot of rating by Hispanics the director has to but real life stories of immigrants in his …show more content…
Except her films are very different and super unique because she has a friend that is a donkey. There's one about her arriving to America and she only knows how to say coffee and donuts. Basically every restaurant she went she always order that in hoping it might be something different like other people had. Her films are an amazing ways to make you laugh about stupid things. But what is so funny is that she act as a true Mexican Indian. This actor is not embarrassed to show her roots and go in public and people call her by India Maria. This is similar to Instructions Not Included because some of her films take place in Acapulco. Also she is the main character and the director of all her
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