Low-rent vaudeville entertainers lose their venue and try to find mainstream jobs to support the foundling child they're raising.
Acting
Capulina and Viruta's physical comedy chemistry is untouchable.
Direction
Salvador keeps the poverty surprisingly kinetic, never maudlin.
Director
Jaime Salvador
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Capulina and Viruta were Mexico's biggest comedy duo of the era, making over 80 films together before their infamous 1980s split.
The film quietly documents the death of carpa theater — the tent shows that birthed Mexican cinema's first stars — as television killed live variety.
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