Amores Perros     Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Written by Guillermo Arriaga                                          Cast                                        El Chivo Emilio Echevarría Octavio Gael García Bernal Valeria Goya Toledo Daniel Álvaro Guerrero                               Other Information                       2000 153 Minutes R In Spanish with English Subtitles

Three stories of life along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother, which leads to a serious problem when he falls in love with his sister-in-law. In an attempt to make some quick money, he and his pooch must enter into the seamy underworld of dogfighting. Elsewhere, Daniel, a successful publishing magnate, leaves his family to take up with a beautiful model, Valeria. However, Valeria, soon is injured in an auto accident, and as Daniel tends to her needs, her tiny pet dog gets trapped under the floorboards of their apartment. In anther thread of the plot, there is El Chivo, an elderly homeless man trying to track down his daughter. Desperate for money, El Chivo is hired to assassinate a businessman; however, as he's following his target, he's interrupted by a catastrophic auto accident.

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