Back To Maracaibo

Back To Maracaibo

★ 5.2IMDb Score
Released:2022-12-01
Genre:Comedy
Duration:118 min
Country:Venezuela
Director:Carlos Daniel Alvarado
Actors:Yenifer Guerrero, Mario Sudano, Fabricio Vasquez, Ozias Acosta, Sasha Soto
Production:Alvarado Original Films

Overview:

Eladio is a failed actor who has spent years in obscurity working maintenance at a TV station in the capital. When he’s forced to return to Maracaibo to care for his teenage niece —a fierce, guitar-playing rebel— their worlds clash. Amid loud music, insults, and generational conflict, Eladio accidentally reinvents himself as an acting teacher… and ends up entangled with one of the city’s most notorious crime syndicates. What follows is a hilarious, heartfelt, and uniquely Latin American story about rediscovery, family, and the absurdities of adulthood —at any age.

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