The Perfect Family

2021 [SPANISH]

Action / Adventure / Comedy

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57%
IMDb Rating 5.4/10 10 3409 3.4K

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Plot summary

Lucía (Belén Rueda) is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she has focused all of her efforts on caring for her family, until achieving what for her is a perfect family. However, her entire world begins to collapse with the arrival of Sara (Carolina Yuste), the girlfriend of her son; a young girl with great freedom and without mincing words who has a very different family from what Lucia always dreamed of as a political family. Now, Lucia must accept that the perfect family was not exactly what she thought.

Director

Arantxa Echevarría Photo
Arantxa Echevarría

Top cast

Marabina Jaimes Photo
Marabina Jaimes as Amparo
María Hervás Photo
María Hervás as Olmedo
José Coronado Photo
José Coronado as Miguel
Carolina Yuste Photo
Carolina Yuste as Sara
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1020.6 MB
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Spanish 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 2
2.05 GB
1920*960
Spanish 5.1
NR
Subtitles ar  us  fr  pl  es  uk  
24 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

A passable Spanish comedy with several of the country's best performers.

Belén Rueda plays Lucía, a middle-aged, upper-class woman who believes she leads a model life and has a perfect family, with a wealthy husband (Gonzalo de Castro) and an obedient, lawyer son (Alfonso Ramos). But everything falls apart when she meets her son's girlfriend (Carolina Yuste) and her family, leaving her to question what a perfect family really is. When she meets her potential future relatives, a lower-class family, her world changes, since they are not at all what she imagined for him. Things take a turn for the worse when she has a romantic encounter with the girlfriend's father, Miguel (José Coronado).The second feature film by director Arantxa Echevarria after the multi-awarded "Carmen y Lola", which also stars Carolina Yuste. A star-studded cast led by Belén Rueda, José Coronado and Gonzalo de Castro in a story with brief dramatic touches, full of entaglements, plot twists, misunderstandings, snobs, 'chonis', and a slap in the face of personal, family and social reality. The main starring is Belén Rueda , who gives a decent acting as the perfectionist, narcissistic and domineering mother who hides, beneath her haughty facade, a deep insecurity. Belén continues to prove herself one of the best actresses in Spain, with each film she appears in -although somewhat older, already in her sixties- , but she is capable of displaying great versatility, knowing how to give each role her innate elegance and utmost talent. Belén is an expert actress in mystery and horror movies, although she has not ruled out other genres, such as comedy, as demonstrates in this one "The perfect family". She has starred in blockbuster films such as: "Los ojos de Julia (Julia's eyes)", "El Orfanato ( The orphanage), "Durante la tormenta", "El Pacto (The pacto), "El cuaderno de Sara (Sarah's notebook)", "Órbita 9", "No Dormirás", "The Body (The body)" or recent, "Caída Libre (Free fall)". The movie also features performances by Gonzalo Ramos, Pepa Arniote, and, of course, Carolina Yuste, recent Goya winner for her acting in "La infiltrada".The motion picture was professionally directed by Arantxa Echevarria, although it has some falls in rhythm, and the comic situations that arise are hampared by being too artificial, lacking spontaneity. Arantxa has also directed "Carmen y Lola", "Chinas", "Politically incorrect" and the multi-Goya winning film "La infiltrada", alongside her favorite actress Carolina Yuste. Score: 5,5/10. Acceptable and passable movie, recommeded for fans of Belén Rueda, José Coronado and Carolina Yuste.
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Reviewed by buckythewonderhorse 5 / 10

not a comedy - synopsis and trailer are misleading

(To avoid spoilers, only read the 2 paragraphs after this one)

After watching the trailer, I thought this could be fun: rich boy gets engaged to working class girl, and a funny clash of cultures between the families follows, as in e.g. My Big Fat Greek Wedding. And for the first 20 or so minutes, that is what we get.

Then it turns strange. The boy and girl become background characters, and it becomes a romantic drama about the mother of groom, torn between her feelings for the energetic father of the bride, and her loyalty to her rich but boring scientist husband. And it becomes more light drama than comedy.

OK, now the spoiler:

the boy and the girl happily marry, but the affair between the mother of the groom and the father of bride causes both their marriages to break up, leaving all four of them single. I know life is sometimes like that, but having two marriages break up is not what I call an enjoyable romantic comedy.

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