Nicotina

For the drug with trade name Nicotina, see Nicotine.

Nicotina
Directed by	Hugo Rodríguez
Written by	Martín Salinas
Produced by	Laura Imperiale Monica Lozano Serrano
Starring	Diego Luna
Cinematography	Marcelo Iaccarino
Edited by	Alberto de Toro
Music by	Fernando Corona
Distributed by	Arenas Group
Release date	3 October 2003 (2003-10-03)
Running time	93 minutes
Countries	Mexico Argentina
Language	Spanish
Budget	$446,768

Nicotina (English: Nicotine) is a six-time Ariel Award winning and six-time nominated 2003 Mexican-Argentine gangster film produced by the same team as the 2000 acclaimed film Amores perros. It is a "real time movie".

Plot

Lolo is a male computer science geek who tangles with a clutch of the Russian mafia, when he delivers the wrong computer disk to them and with the disastrous results of drugs and smoking tobacco.

Cast

• Diego Luna as Lolo
• Lucas Crespi as Nene
• Norman Sotolongo as Svóboda
• Jesús Ochoa as Tomson
• Martha Tenorio as Eulogia (as Marta Tenorio)
• Rafael Inclán as Goyo
• Rosa María Bianchi as Carmen
• José María Yazpik as Joaquín
• Marta Belaustegui as Andrea
• Eugenio Montessoro as Carlos
• Carmen Madrid as Clara
• Daniel Giménez Cacho as Beto
• Alexis Sánchez as Andrei
• Jorge Zárate as Sánchez
• Enoc Leaño as Memo

Bibliography

• Arranging The Actors To Promote Nicotine Fits, The New York Times, A. O. Scott, 20 August 2004
• Nicotina - review, Plume-noire, Anji Milanovic, Access date: 31 May 2022
• Nicotina, Political Film Society, 3 January 2003

External links

• Nicotina at IMDb
• Nicotina at AllMovie
• Nicotina at Rotten Tomatoes
• Nicotina at Box Office Mojo