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El Pico 2 is a film of genre Drama directed by Eloy de la Iglesia with Fernando Guillén
El Pico 2 (1984)
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Add to a movie listEl Pico 2 (English: Overdose) is a 1984 film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It stars José Luis Manzano and Fernando Guillén.
The films centers on the relationship between a Civil guard and his heroine addict son who falls in an escalating life of crime. El Pico 2 is a follow-up to El pico which was more successful. Drugs, delinquency, generational problems and the underworld of heroin are the themes of the two films.
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Paco, a young drug addict, recently mourning the death of his best friend from a heroine overdose, is unable to overcome his addiction on his own. Withdrawal is too painful for Paco, who is under the watchful eye of his severe but concerned widower father, Evaristo Torrecuadrada, a civil guard commandant. To find a detox treatment for Paco, father and son move to Madrid. They are welcome in the household of Paco's feisty grandmother who lives with her faithful old maid, Adela. Both women naively believe that Paco ailment is diabetes completely unaware of his drug addiction.Actors
Fernando Guillén
(Evaristo Torrecuadrada)
Gracita Morales
(Adela)
Agustín González
(Laureano Alonso)
Eloy de la Iglesia
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