| Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law | |
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| Spanish | Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley |
| Directed by | Santiago Segura |
| Written by | Santiago Segura |
| Produced by | Andrés Vicente Gómez |
| Starring | Santiago Segura Javier Cámara Neus Asensi Chus Lampreave Tony Leblanc |
| Cinematography | Carles Gusi |
| Edited by | Fidel Collados |
| Music by | Roque Baños |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar Films de España |
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Running time | 97 min. |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | 280 million ₧ |
| Box office | 1,500 million ₧ |
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (Spanish: Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley)[1][n. 1] is a 1998 Spanish dark comedy film written and directed by Santiago Segura, who stars as José Luis Torrente, a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and fascist former police agent.[2] Characterized by its deliberately cartoonish humor, it proved to be a massive box office hit, and Torrente became part of Spanish contemporary popular culture.
This film won two Goya Awards and it became the highest-grossing film in the history of Spanish cinema, later surpassed by its sequel, Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella. It also launched the Torrente film series by Santiago Segura, who directed the sequel, the third (Torrente 3: El protector), the fourth (Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis) and fifth (Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas) films.
- ^ Juan-Navarro, Santiago (2018). "Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley (Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law) (1998)". In Jimenez Murguía, Salvador; Pinar, Alex (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 377–378. ISBN 9781442271333.
- ^ Egea 2020, p. 83.
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