Help Me Make It Through the Night

Feb 8, 2018

1h 29m

★ 5.7

Overview

A family on the brink of a break up: dad is about to throw out mom because of her gambling addiction, the oldest boy's girlfriend is about to leave him because of his epilepsy and the youngest child thinks he has the perfect plan to bring the family back together again.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad

Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC)

Help Me Make It Through the Night Trailers

Cast

Rodrigo

Hernán Mendoza

Patricia

Elena de Haro

Luis

Diego Calva

Carlos

Luis Amaya

Omar

Mateo Loza

Giovanni

Armando Espitia

Natalia

Fernanda Echevarría del Rivero

Mónica Dionne

Sarita

Paloma Woolrich

Luis

Luis Velázquez

Vendedora de colchones

Paloma Arredondo

Empleado casa de empeño

Ricardo Cortés

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