Alfredo Castro,
Amparo Noguera,
Héctor Morales,
Paola Lattus,
Elsa Poblete
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As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a 50-year-old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the ou... read more
DVD Release Date: June 1, 2010
Stats: 190 reviews
Chile's official submission to the 2009 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film is an interesting, compelling study of a miserable sociopath, relying on a gripping performance by Alfredo Castro and making some subtle political comments.
A cross between Man Bites Dog, The King of Comedy and Scarface but no where near as good as either. Alfredo Castro is brilliant as Raúl Peralta, a man obsessed with becoming Tony Manero in 1978's Chile during Pinochets dictatorship, the gritty violence and pure terror is there bu... read more
Riveting near mute central performance drives along this dark tale of obsession. Reading the central character's face and hoping things won't go as badly as you fear offer intrigue, and watching the final showdown is unbearably tense. An unheralded treat for those who like their ... read more
Tony Manero is Chilean Psycho. It's a terrifying drama, social commentary and a sports movie rolled together. Alfredo Castro gives a perfomance to remember as a murderous superfan of Saturday Night Fever. He watches the film religiously and practices the dance moves relentlessly.... read more
Raul(Alfredo Castro) is a week early for the Tony Manero look-alike contest at the television studio because this week they are doing Chuck Norris. That's not the only sympton of his obsession as he also goes to see "Saturday Night Fever" every chance he can, plus putting on a s... read more
Larrain evokes the bleakness and oppressiveness of life in a police state with much subtlety even as he poses a much larger question about cultural imperialism. Full Review
Shot with a hand-held camera and presented in a fragmented scenario, Tony Manero is the director's compelling attempt to find parallels between the Pinochet reign of terror and Raúl's scruple-less ant... Full Review
A memorably claustrophobic evocation of its time and place, as well as a reminder that the so-called escape offered by pop culture can sometimes be an escape into soul-sucking madness. Full Review
More than an indelible portrait of a sociopath with the soul of a zombie, Tony Manero is an extremely dark meditation on borrowed cultural identity. Full Review
Tony Manero has a purposefully murky look and a frantic feel. Full Review
(Alfredo) Castro plays the part with a dead-eyed blankness, a hollow, terrifying character who is as repellent as he is fascinating. Full Review
Alfredo Castro is magnetically repellant in the lead, a soulful creep with desperation and a very specific form of madness seeping out of his pores. Full Review
Larrain's consciously raw execution in telling the story of a compelling but ultimately unsavory character is an id-bending exercise in provocation that's both competent and challenging. Full Review
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