“A crowdpleaser. Generous, cathartic entertainment. What really gives ‘Heroic Losers’ a boost is its expression of national character, the way it attaches itself to this rousing fantasy to score one for the downtrodden.” - Scott Tobias, VARIETY
The year is 2001, and Argentina is hitting the lowest point in its great depression. His glory days far behind him, retired soccer star Fermín (Ricardo Darín, The Secret in Their Eyes, Nine Queens, Truman) now runs a service station in a sleepy provincial town. Hoping to pull his family and their community out of decline, Fermín seeks to convert some abandoned grain silos into a viable storage facility. He convinces friends to invest in the cooperative, but is railroaded by a conniving bank manager into placing their cash into a savings account just as the banks are about to be frozen by the government, rendering their money useless and their plans quashed.
For a time things seem only to get worse, until rumours spread of a secret depository that may contain the cooperative’s pilfered cash. With Fermín as their Robin Hood–esque leader, the group conspires to infiltrate the cache, but it’s going to take some serious resolve, a little inspiration, and a lot of luck to pull off this honest-person heist.
Featuring an all-star Argentinian cast (including Ricardo Darín and his real-life son Chino on screen together for the first time), the new heist comedy from Sebastián Borensztein is a rousing tale of working-class solidarity and collective revenge, based on a novel by Eduardo Sacheri (The Secret In Their Eyes).
OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2019 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
OFFICIAL SELECTION (ARGENTINA) – 2020 ACADEMY AWARDS
Awards: 2 Wins, 6 Nominations
Nominated, Best Latin-American Film, Ariel Awards, Mexico, 2020
Nominated, Best Ibero-American Film, Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, 2020
Winner, Best Ibero-American Film, Goya Awards, 2020
Winner, Best Latin-American Picture, José María Forqué Awards, 2020
Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film, Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2020
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