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Chico & Rita

Chico and Rita
Chico Rita.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Fernando Trueba
Javier Mariscal
Tono Errando
Produced by Santi Errando
Cristina Huete
Michael Rose
Martin Pope
Screenplay by Fernando Trueba
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
Story by Fernando Trueba
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
Starring See Cast
Music by Bebo Valdés
Edited by Arnau Quiles
Production
company
Fernando Trueba PC
Estudio Mariscal
Magic Light Pictures
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
(Spain)
GKIDS (North America)
CinemaNX
Release date
  • 19 November 2010 (2010-11-19) (United Kingdom)
  • 25 February 2011 (2011-02-25) (Spain)
Running time
94 minutes
Country United States
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Spain
Isle of Man
Hungary
Philippines
Language Spanish
English
French
Budget €10 million
Box office $2.2 million

Chico and Rita is a 2010 adult animated music romantic film with Spanish and English languages directed by Tono Errando, Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. The story of Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unite them, but their journey—in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero—brings heartache and torment. The film was produced by Fernando Trueba Producciones, Estudio Mariscal, and Magic Light Pictures. It received financing from CinemaNX and Isle of Man Film. It won the Goya Award for Best Animated Film at the 25th Goya Awards and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards (the first nomination for a Spanish full-length animated film).

In present-day Havana, Chico, a shoe-shiner, tunes his radio to the Radio Progreso station, which is playing old Cuban hits on a program called Melodies from Yesterday. As he listens, the station begins to play a romantic arrangement of A Taste of Me (Sabor a Mí) by Mexican composer Álvaro Carrillo (1921–69) which causes him to remember his life back in 1940s Cuba. In 1948 Havana, Chico and his best friend Ramón are struggling dandies in a low-life bar. Ramon arranges a double date for the both of them with two American tourists. They take the women to a bar where Chico falls in love with the band's beautiful lead singer, Rita. Chico attempts to talk to her, but an American tourist refuses to let Rita leave him.


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