Anita Takes a Chance

Jan 26, 2001

1h 29m

★ 5.0

Overview

Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Canal+ España

Els Films de la Rambla S.A.

TVE

TV3

Anita Takes a Chance Trailers

Cast

Anita

Rosa María Sardà

Dependent

Isak Férriz

Antonio

Jose Coronado

Natalia

María Barranco

Cambrer

Roger Coma

Anita Jove

Aina Clotet

David Janer

Cati Solivellas

Borja Espinosa

Albert Trifol i Verdú

Jade Pradas

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