Brain Drain (film)

Brain Drain
Brain Drain
Directed by	Fernando González Molina
Written by	Curro Velázquez; Álex Pina
Produced by	Daniel Écija; Mercedes Gamero; Pablo Olivares;
Starring	Mario Casas; Amaia Salamanca; Alberto Amarilla; Gorka Lasaosa; Pablo Penedo; Canco Rodríguez; Blanca Suárez; Simon Cohen
Cinematography	Sergio Delgado
Edited by	Irene Blecua
Music by	Manel Santiesteban, Cecilia Krull
Production; company	A3 Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	14 July 2009;
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Spain
Languages	Spanish; English
Box office	€7 million

Brain Drain (Spanish: Fuga de cerebros) is a 2009 Spanish romantic-comedy film directed by Fernando González Molina and starring Mario Casas and Amaia Salamanca. The film is an A3 Films production.

The production started on 14 July 2008 in Madrid and Gijón, and its premier was on 24 April 2009. Due to great success in the Spanish's box offices, filmed its sequel: (Brain Drain: Now in Harvard) in 2011.

Plot[]

The film begins with an 18 year old Emilio (Mario Casas) who tells his amorous misadventures with Natalia (Amaia Salamanca) due to all his physical problems (orthodoncy, orthosis, etc.) When he is 18 he finally gets rid of all his dental appareils and has the chance to confess to Natalia his love. But when she gets a student grant to attend Oxford University (England), all his friends try to help him by going to Oxford too with fake grants.

However, once there, the group must confront several problems, such as their poor English and their disabilities and quirks (one of the Emilio's friends is blind, other is paraplegic and the last one is a drug dealer). Nevertheless, and despite their impediments, they make their best to help him to get closer to Natalia with disastrous results.

Cast[]

Mario Casas as Emilio Carbajosa Benito
Amaia Salamanca as Natalia
as José Manuel "Chuli" Sánchez Expósito
as Rafael "Ruedas" Garrido Calvo
as Felipe "Corneto" Roldán Salas
as Raimundo "Cabra" Vargas Montoya
Blanca Suárez as "Angelical voice"/Speaker
as Claudia
as Edward Chamberlain
Carlos Santos as Potro
as Professor
Asunción Balaguer as Emilio's grandmother
as Emilio grandfather
Álex Angulo as Cecilio Garrido
Loles León as Rita Calvo
David Fernández Ortiz as Loren Sánchez
José Luis Gil as Manuel Roldán
Mariano Peña as Julián Roldán
Fernando Guillén as Natalia's grandfather
Antonio Resines as Natalia's father
as Young Emilio Carbajosa Benito (11 years old)
as Young Emilio Carbajosa Benito (8 years old)
as Young Natalia

Reception[]

In its first week at the Spanish theaters, the film reached €1.22 mill at the office box and nearly 200,000 spectators saw it. With those takings, Brain Drain was the first on the Spanish box and a hit forward to State of Play.^[1]

Meanwhile, in the international box office: in United States, the film got $1,614,121 in its first weekend at cinemas.^[2]

The total income amounted to almost €7 million, becoming the biggest blockbuster Spanish film in 2009.

The film itself, however, was panned by critics.^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ "Fugados con el número uno". Archived from the original on 26 September 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
^ Taquilla fuera de Estados Unidos, 24 al 26 de abril de 2009
^ http://decine21.com/peliculas/Fuga-de-cerebros-16449
^ http://www.filmaffinity.com/es/reviews/1/736154.html

External links[]

Official website
Brain Drain at IMDb

[1] "Fugados con el número uno". Archived from the original on 26 September 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2013.

[2] Taquilla fuera de Estados Unidos, 24 al 26 de abril de 2009

[3] ttp://decine21.com/peliculas/Fuga-de-cerebros-16449

[4] ttp://www.filmaffinity.com/es/reviews/1/736154.html

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