Desperado (film)

Desperado
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRobert Rodriguez
Written byRobert Rodriguez
Produced by
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Bill Borden
Starring
CinematographyGuillermo Navarro
Edited byRobert Rodriguez
Music byLos Lobos
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release date
  • August 25, 1995 (1995-08-25)
Running time
105 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Budget$7 million[2][3]
Box office$58 million[4]

Desperado is a 1995 American neo-Western action film written, co-produced, edited and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the second part of Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy. It stars Antonio Banderas as El Mariachi who seeks revenge on the drug lord who killed his lover. The film was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.[5] Desperado grossed $58 million worldwide. It has been cited as featuring Salma Hayek's breakout role.[6]

  1. ^ "DESPERADO (18)". British Board of Film Classification. September 8, 1995. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  2. ^ "Desperado". The Numbers. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  3. ^ Baumgarten, Marjorie (September 1, 1995). "Desperado HoursFor a Few Dollars More". AustinChronicle.com. Desperado was financed by Columbia Pictures and quotes a production cost of $7 million
  4. ^ "Planet Hollywood". Screen International. August 30, 1996. pp. 14–15.
  5. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Desperado". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved September 8, 2009.
  6. ^ "Salma Hayek on putting a menopausal woman in the centre of an action film". The Independent. June 15, 2021. Retrieved June 23, 2021.