
Anita Takes a Chance
2001-01-26 · 89 min · ★ 5.9
Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...
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- Directors
- Ventura Pons
- Production companies
- Canal+ España, Els Films de la Rambla S.A., TVE, TV3
- Countries
- Spain
- Status
- Released
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Rosa María SardàAnita
Isak FérrizDependent
Jose CoronadoAntonio
María BarrancoNatalia
Roger ComaCambrer
Aina ClotetAnita Jove
David Janer
Cati Solivellas
Borja Espinosa
Albert Trifol i Verdú
Mercè Arànega
María Barranco
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