Highway Patrolman / Three Businessmen - 2-DVD Set ( El patrullero ) ( Highway Patrolman / 3 Businessmen )

Highway Patrolman / Three Businessmen - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El patrullero
Alternate Title: Highway Patrolman / 3 Businessmen
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
177 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1991 - 199 and produced in:
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alex Cox

Written By:
Lorenzo O'Brien
Tod Davies

Actors:
Roberto Sosa ..... Pedro
Bruno Bichir ..... Anibal
Vanessa Bauche ..... Maribel
Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez ..... Griselda
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. ..... Sargento Barreras
Malena Doria ..... Abuela
Towi Islas ..... Emilio
Ernesto Gómez Cruz ..... Comandante Navarro
Mike Moroff ..... Comandante Sanchez
Jorge Russek ..... Sr. Mateos
Ana Bertha Espín ..... Sra. Sánchez
Eduardo López Rojas ..... Sr. Rojas
Maricruz Nájera ..... Sra. Rojas
Adyari Cházaro ..... Isabel (as Adjari Cházaro)
Carlos Álvarez ..... Luis
Miguel Sandoval ..... Bennie Reyes
Robert Wisdom ..... Leroy Jasper
Alex Cox ..... Frank King
Andrew Schofield ..... Desk Clerk
Isabel Ampudia ..... Josefina
Masayoshi Anzai ..... Karaoke Singer / Voice of Cab Driver
Linda Callahan ..... Plutonium Card (voice)
Christine Colvin ..... Liverpool Barmaid
Tod Davies ..... Woman in Tramhuis
Adrian Henri ..... Poet
Ina Hernandez ..... Guadalupe
Adrian Kai ..... Maitre D'
Banshu Matsui ..... Bar Master
John McMartin ..... Liverpool Businessman
Josephine Moss ..... Hand of God
Masatoshi Nagase ..... Blind Man
Kuniaki Negishi ..... Yakitori Businessman 1
Nikos ..... Second Waiter
Zenta Nishida ..... Yakitori Businessman 3
Chigumi Obayashi ..... Bar Customer 1
Marie Obayashi ..... Bar Customer 2
Mr. Panos ..... First Waiter
Carolien Porvaas ..... Dutch Businesswoman
Charlie Ryan ..... Old Liverpudlian
Takao Sasai ..... Drunk Businessman at Bar
Yasufumi Shibahara ..... Yakitori Businessman 2
Tomorowo Taguchi ..... Noodle Shop Waiter
Ryoko Takizawa ..... Noodle Shop Waitress
Nobumasa Takura ..... Bar Customer 3
Ruud van der Pluim ..... Man in Tramhuis
Ties van der Zande ..... Tramhuis Barmaid
Alicia Wilson Soesbergen ..... Baby
Kiichiro Yanashita ..... Yakitori Businessman 4

Synopsis:

Highway Patrolman (1991): Pedro Rojas (Roberto Soza) graduates from the Police Academy in Mexico City with his best friend Anibal Morales (Bruno Bichir). They begin their careers as federal highway patrolmen on a lonely stretch of road in Northern Mexico. Anibal immediately starts taking bribes. Pedro holds out but suffers a series of mishaps: he is shot in the leg by a drunk driver and harassed by his father's ghost (Eduardo Lopez Rojas), wrecks a police car and beats up the son of the State Governor. Soon he too succumbs to easy money and marries a local ranch owner, taking a prostitute as a mistress. But when Anibal is killed in a shoot-out with drug dealers, Pedro's old fanaticism returns. He sets out into the desert, to settle the score...

Three Businessmen (1998): Two lone businessmen, Bennie and Frank find themselves alone one night in the dining room of a large Victorian hotel in Liverpool, England. Abandoned by the staff of the weird dining room, they tentatively join forces and go in search of food - in a city neither of them knows. But restaurant after restaurant fails them. Without realising their destination, Bennie and Frank travel half way around the planet, via public transport. Prattling on about credit cards and computers, never saying anything, their origin and purpose a total mystery. Finally at dawn they meet a third businessman, Leroy, who carries a child's toy. He too is hungry. The three of them find breakfast at a street stand, run by Josefina, and also... a surprise.

Highway Patrolman

Highway Patrolman charts the harrowing transition from idealism to grim realism in an intense and brilliantly played character study that offers a fascinating and gritty insight into corruption and embittered disillusionment. Graduating as a top police student from the National Highway Patrol Police Academy, Pedro Rojas (veteran Mexican actor Roberto Sosa) and his college friend Anibal (Bruno Bichir) are sent to patrol a desolate highway. After strictly enforcing the law during their arduous 24-hour shifts, their dedication soon dwindles. Pedro's wife complains about his lowly wage and pressurises him into accepting bribes and so a steady descent begins.

Three Businessmen

Taking place during one night but in a variety of international locations, Three Businessmen is a surreal and subversive comic fantasy that pays homage to Luis Buuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972). Sharply scripted by Tod Davies to take in subjects as diverse as the theme music on answerphones and The Beatles, this stimulating, playful work displays Cox's liberating disregard for convention. American art dealer Bennie (Miguel Sandoval) and British art dealer Frank King (Alex Cox) meet in the abandoned restaurant of a Liverpool hotel and set off in search of a decent meal. Attempting to suppress their hunger through conversation the pair eventually come across not sustenance, but another hungry businessman, Leroy Jasper (Robert Wisdom).

Double-bill of films from cult British director Alex Cox. In 'Three Businessmen' (1998), when art dealers Bennie (Miguel Sandoval) and Frank (Alex Cox) have no luck trying to get a meal in the abandoned dining room of a Liverpool hotel they set out into the city looking for something to eat. However, for one reason or another, each of the restaurants they visit proves unsatisfactory and before they know it they have travelled halfway around the world, caught up in their trivial prattle, and still without finding any food. This all changes with the dawn, when they meet another hungry businessman and eat breakfast at a stall in the street. In 'Highway Patrolman' (1992), Pedro (Roberto Soza) is a patrol cop who, fresh out of police academy, gets assigned to a lonely stretch of road in Northern Mexico. He strives to remain honest and uphold the law, but his wife, his friends and even his superiors give him a hard time until he eventually begins to accept bribes. However, when his friend is killed by drug dealers Pedro decides that enough is enough and sets out to seek his vengeance. In Spanish with English subtitles.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 07 September, 2009.