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Get a Life — Plot

During one winter night, a Portuguese teenager, Alvaro, loses his life in a fight between a youth gang and the cops in a suburb of Paris. Cidalia, a 36 year old cleaning woman, his mother, decides to defy the code of silence of the Portuguese community and tries to find the truth. She losses her friends, her job and her family but gains a life.

  • Release date
  • May 4, 2001
  • Runtime
  • 115 min
  • Genres
  • Drama
  • Director
  • João Canijo

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Get a Life — Cast

Rita Blanco photo Rita Blanco Cidália Adriano Luz photo Adriano Luz Adelino Teresa Madruga photo Teresa Madruga Celestina Alda Gomes photo Alda Gomes Alda Olivier Leite Orlando Maria David Lúcia Yvette Caldas Fátima Jinie Rainho Jinie

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