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Bad Day to Go Fishing

2009

A washed-up former strongman and his silver-tongued manager tour small South American towns staging wrestling exhibitions, until a stop in one Uruguayan town threatens to expose the fragile fiction propping them up. A tragicomic drama.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Uruguay

This film is stop 8 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Uruguay. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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