04 Oct 1996
That Thing You Do!
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no idea of who sent the letter or its content. So he goes to the drugstore because the pharmacist can read the letter to him. But while waiting to be helped he sees that a young girl can read. He figures he has to be able to discover the letter's content by himself and decides he will save the letter and go to school, and wait to read the letter on his own.
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Cantinflas Inocencio Prieto y Calvo
Lilia Prado Blanca Morales
Sara García Doña Epifanita
Ángel Garasa Don Romulo González
Miguel Manzano Don Fermín
Carlos Agostí Licenciado Aníbal Guzmán
María Teresa Rivas Refugio González
Daniel Herrera El Poca Luz
Fernando Soto 'El Sapo'
Guillermo Orea Comisario
Óscar Ortiz de Pinedo Jesús López, notario público
Carlos Martínez Baena Profesor
Judy Ponte Ofelia González
Luis Manuel Pelayo Ministerio Público
Lidia Franco Doña Chona
León Barroso Empleado del banco
Armando Arriola Asistente de Notario
Palmira Arzubide Mamá de Lupita
Alberto Catalá El Güero
Manuel Alvarado Don Leoncio
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