Product Details

• Actors: Juan Villegas, Rosa Valsecchi, Walter Donado, Gregorio the dog, Mariela Diaz
• Directors: Carlos Sorin
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Venevision International
• DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Run Time: 97 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001KMB7O0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,180 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bombon - El Perro" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Spanish: Una historia original llena de esperanza y determinación. A Juan Villegas lo despiden de su trabajo de más de veinte años. Desesperado, sabiendo que su edad es su mayor obstáculo, comienza a trabajar en una hacienda donde recibe como pago un hermoso perro de pura raza. Frustrado al recibir semejante pago, comienza un viaje sin regreso lleno de emociones, trabajo y esperanza, cuando descubre que su futuro depende de su valor y la destreza de su perro.

English: Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan Coco Villegas. He has been a gas station attendant for twenty years in Patagonia and finds himself jobless overnight. He first tries to survive by selling knives of his own making. But business is bad and he can't find real work. One day though, after fixing a vehicle on a farm, he gets paid by means of a ... beautiful Argentinian watch-dog! From this blessed day on, things start looking up

Winner the Mayahuel Award for Best Director Carlos Sorin in the Guadalajara Mexican film Festival (2005). Winner of the Fipresci Prize Award

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best friends, March 1, 2010

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Matarife Camorra "El Boliviano" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bombon - El Perro (DVD)

The simplicity of rural Argentina is reflected with honest endearment in this story.
"Coco" and "Bombon" speak loud with glances, half smiles and heart about the struggles of people that refuse to go down without a fight. Cinema like this, reminds us that the most amazing stories are played out by everyday people. If there was awards for Doggy acting, "Bombon" would walk away with all of them, is not what he does but what we see in him that will make you laugh and cry.
You can't miss this chance to be humbled by love, loyalty and a hero called Bombon.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Argentina's best films of all times!, July 19, 2009

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Cristian (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bombon - El Perro (DVD)

Shot entirely in beautiful Patagonia, Argentina, by the great director Carlos Sorin, this film follows the relationship between a middle age working class man who has just lost his work, and a pedigree dog that is given to him as payment for a free lance job he has done at a Southern farm to get some money.
In the beginning, he doesn't know what to do with his new friend, but after a while, he realises that the dog will be the most important companion in his lonesome life; and perhaps, even help him make some profit.

5.0 out of 5 stars Unassuming and Surprising Warm, February 14, 2012

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C. Travis (Tennessee, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bombon - El Perro (DVD)

This is a feel-good movie about an older out-of-work Patagonian mechanic named Coco whose life is transformed when he is given a pedigree dog. After rescuing a woman whose car breaks down far from home, coco is "paid" with a pedigree Argentine dog that soon transforms his life. With the help of a carefree dog trainer named Walter, Coco decides to go on the dog-show circuit, and he and Walter hit the road to seek their fortune. Great casting, breathtaking scenery, and low key acting made for a heartwarming story. In Spanish with English subtitles.