Papi Chulo (2019)

Name: Papi Chulo
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2019-06-07
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Michael Shepperd

Papi Chulo (2019), directed by John Butler, starring Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño.

06/07/2019 BR Comedy and Drama 1h 38m

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Sometimes a stranger makes the best friend.

Synopsis

A lonely TV weatherman strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.

Cathal WattersCinematography
John ButlerDirector, Writer
John McPhillipsOriginal music

About the film

Papi Chulo is a 2018 comedy-drama film written and directed by John Butler, starring Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Papi Chulo is a 2018 comedy-drama film written and directed by John Butler, starring Matt Bomer and Alejandro Patiño. It premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

Plot

Sean, a solitary and alienated television weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Hispanic migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man, to paint his deck and for someone to talk to, in this darkly comedic reflection on class, ethnicity, and companionship in contemporary Los Angeles. Sean is young, gay and white; Ernesto, portly, straight and married. Despite having nothing in common and a language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean becomes consumed with a deeper obsessive need.

Cast

Matt Bomer as Sean

Alejandro Patiño as Ernesto

Elena Campbell-Martinez as Linda

Wendi McLendon-Covey as Ash

Michael Shepperd as Stan

Tommie Earl Jenkins as Tom

Edgar Arreola as Elisio

Ryan Guzman as Rodrigo

Shaughn Buchholz as Mike

D'Arcy Carden as Susan

Release

Papi Chulo had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2018. The film also screened at BFI London Film Festival; the Torino Film Festival on November 23, 2018; the Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 6, 2019; and the Dublin International Film Festival on February 20, 2019. It then released in select theaters on June 7, 2019.

Reception

Critical response

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 75% rating, based on 51 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's consensus reads: "Papi Chulo is a cross-cultural comedy that mostly avoids the pitfalls of its premise, largely thanks to the chemistry between its well-matched leads." Another aggregator, Metacritic, gave the film a score of 42 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

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References

External links

Papi Chulo at IMDb

Papi Chulo at Rotten Tomatoes

Papi Chulo at GagaOOLala

Text from Papi Chulo (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papi_Chulo_(film)

Trivia

It premiered on June 7, 2019, a Friday.
It runs 1h38 — a typical feature length.
This film's quiz has 13 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.