Barcelona

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
7/29/1994
100
PG-13

Americans. Anti Americans. In love.

During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.

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$3,200,000

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  • tmdb28039023

    Do you know what Dr. Johnson said? Guests, like the fish, start to stink on the third day. In fact, I think you'll find that I start to stink on the first day.

    This exchange exemplifies the good and the bad about Barcelona; its full of acerbic Johnsonian sarcasm beautifully channeled by Chris Eigeman, but the third act feels more like the third day, with all that this implies.

    The film, about two young American cousins ​​and their misadventures with the female fauna of the titular city, has another problem. The cousins, Fred and Ted, are skillfully and competently played by Eigeman and Taylor Nichols, respectively Nichols's forced verbal tics only manage to make him seem like an ersatz Woody Allen (unusual for for writer/director W...

    September 6, 2022

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