Peculiar Attraction (1988)
Genre : Comedy
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Enrique Carreras
Synopsis
A television director decides to make a show about the invasion of transvestites in Mar del Plata. He commissions one of his editors, Jorge Trolombati, who must infiltrate and impersonate one.
A common man that is tired of being treated as stupid, and starts treating other people the same way, acting as a Brazilian "Manosanta" (folk healer that cures people illnesses).
Two Vietnam War veterans are sedated and thrown into the sea on the orders of a crime boss. Two sailors put on the veterans' clothes and Colonel Morris confuses them and thinks they are the veterans.
In 1930s Argentina, dim-witted Rufino and Jacinto are hired as tough guys ("guapos") by political boss Malatesta to intimidate his opponents, rig elections, etc. However, the two men change allegiances when they meet the lovely Mercedes and La Mendocina, victims of Malatesta and his gang.
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Mauricio and Alberto are friends and work in an insurance company. Apparently they have very dissimilar personalities, since Alberto is a hummingbird who lives courting as many women as he can and Mauricio is serious and lover of his wife. In reality, Mauricio maintains a hidden relationship with a vedette named Monica, who constantly puts him in trouble when he asks him to separate from his wife and go live with her. Alberto, aware of this, proposes to Mauricio that he pass his lover to him, and Monica becomes his stable lover. Mauricio and Alberto's women become suspicious and everything gets complicated, and they come to the conclusion that keeping Monica is very dangerous for both of them.
Alberto and Jorge are employees of a refrigerator, who one day see a bus where several beautiful tourists flirt with the guide who drives them and think that being guides will give them many love affairs. They manage to meet with the owner of the tourism company and his partner (Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas, respectively), who hire them immediately, promising them a quick promotion in the company. In reality, Frías Garmet and Gamarro Salas are planning a scam of great magnitude, and they need two unwary to indisting them.
Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of protecting Monica, a beautiful woman threatened with death by an ex-boyfriend.
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had to start ingesting 48 hours later. Realizing this, they decide to go out and look for her with the only data they have: her first name, her striking clothing, and that she was driving an imported motorcycle. So they launch into a crazy race against time touring the fashionable places of the Buenos Aires night, helped by a woman who claims to know the mysterious girl on the motorcycle.
Two orderlies pretend to be surgeons to impress two young doctors and conquer, through several scenarios. Finally, they are discovered when they had to operate on a mafia boss to remove a bullet.
Alberto and Jorge are two friends who work as waiters and during a trip they meet an alien with extraordinary powers. It is sought by a Russian organization, and friends must hide it from it.
Alberto, who has been married to Laura for twenty years, meets Monica in his office, a serious and formal employee with whom he strikes up a friendship.
Catrasca is a photojournalist with a fondness for women of all kinds.
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A prostitute and her homosexual friend arrive from the interior and meet a widowed man.
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After a zoo-keeper discovers that animals can speak, powerful businessmen will try to steal them from the zoo.
After returning from the United States, Johnny Tolengo is extorted by the mob into signing with a shady record company, thus setting off a series of unexpected adventures.
