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Lo que le pasó a Santiago

1989

A recently retired, orderly widower in San Juan strikes up a tentative friendship with a mysterious woman he meets on his daily park walks, opening himself to love and questions late in life. A tender drama and Puerto Rico's first Oscar-nominated film.

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