Project Detail

Girl From Rio

Name: Girl From Rio
Director: Christopher Monger
Released: 2001
Duration: 100 mins

Synopsis

Discovering your wife is sleeping with your boss can make a man do strange things. For a Samba-obsessed London clerk named Raymond, robbing a bank and boarding the first flight to Rio are just the beginning.

On a dull and drizzly Christmas Eve, Raymond (Hugh Laurie, Stuart Little, Maybe Baby) discovers that his coldly ambitious wife Cathy (Lia Williams) is eloping with his officious boss Mr Strothers (Patrick Barlow).

Left to lock up over the holiday period, Raymond decides to get his own back by robbing the bank and catching the first plane to the sun drenched beaches of Rio de Janeiro with his new-found wealth. He's on the trail of 'that girl', the fabulous dancer who graces the cover of 'Samba Monthly'.

Arriving in Rio, Raymond links up with eccentric taxi driver Paulo (Santiago Segura), who is only too happy to help him spend his fortune. Together they will hunt down the exotic Orlinda (Brazilian cover girl and model Vanessa Nunes). After a night of passion, Raymond awakes to find both Orlinda and his money have vanished.

His trouble has only just begun. The streets of Rio are fraught with danger and Raymond is quickly drawn into the city's underworld. The local gangsters are also on the trail of the big-spending Englishman.

Details

Year: 2001
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Christopher Monger
Producer: Stuart Sutherland
Editor: Nicholas Wentworth
Screenwriter: Christopher Monger
Director of Photography: Jose Luis Alcaine
Production Designer: Charles Garrad
Sound: Mark A Van Der Willigen, Andrew Sissons (UK)
Composer: Roque Baños
Principal cast: Hugh Laurie, Vanessa Nunes, Santiago Segura

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Lolafilms, S.A.

C/Velazquez, 12
28001 Madrid

19 Garrick Street

London WC2E 9AX
UK

T 020 7845 7900

Sales Company

Lolafilms UK Ltd.

Contact: Nicole Mackey
19 Garrick Street
London WC2E 9AX
UK

T 020 7845 7900

nicole.mackey@lolauk.co.uk

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