The Cheat

Original title: El verso

1996
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

6.4/10

YOUR RATING

Comedy Drama

Somewhere between farce and grotesque, a street vendor fights against his financial problems while his deceit and frustrations alienate his family.Somewhere between farce and grotesque, a street vendor fights against his financial problems while his deceit and frustrations alienate his family.Somewhere between farce and grotesque, a street vendor fights against his financial problems while his deceit and frustrations alienate his family.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Featured review

4/10

Don´t watch it, you will regret it!

I saw "El verso" in a cinema and I regret it up to this day. I saw the trailer, and I thought, what a funny movie?. But it wasn´t; the three or four jokes in the film appeared in the trailer so I didn´t laugh during it. Then I realized that it was a kind of drama.

"El verso" isn´t a great super-production. The scenery used in this title is very decadent. The story is very simple and unoriginal. Abel Ferrara´s "Blackout" and this, were the two worst films I´ve ever seen in the cinema. I don´t know how I didn´t fall asleep in it. The only thing that can rescue this movie are the magnificent actors that participate in it. I give this title a 3.5 out of 10.