La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha DVD cover
Directed by	Jack Perez
Written by	James McManus
Starring	Eric Roberts Joaquim de Almeida Victor Rivers James McManus Tara Crespo Michael Peña
Music by	Marty Davich
Cinematography	Shawn Maurer
Editing by	John Pace
Release date(s)	France: May 14, 1998 (Cannes Film Festival) United States October 1, 1998 (Austin Film Festival) United States: April 23, 1999 (wide)
Running time	95 min
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	US $3 million
Gross revenue	$14,692 (domestic)

La Cucaracha is a 1998 American film directed by Jack Perez and starring Eric Roberts and Joaquim de Almeida. The film follows the story of Walter Pool (Eric Roberts), a down on his luck wannabe novelist, who receives an offer of $100,000 to kill an alleged child killer. Walter needs the money desperately for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that he is infatuated with a local woman and he feels as though he has nothing to offer to her. He accepts the offer only to find out that the task of killing another human being is much more difficult than he thought, especially when it turns out that his intended victim is not really a child killer.

The film premiered on May 14, 1998 at the Austin Film Festival where it won the Feature Film Award. ^[1][2]

Although the film was a major box office bomb earning less than $15,000, it received some positive reviews scoring 80% as of December 12, 2008 on the aggregate review website Rotten Tomatoes.^[3] Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded La Cucaracha three stars out of four calling it an "intriguing, stylish little film".^[4] Marc Savlov of The Austin Chronicle awarded the film three and a half stars praising "McManus' brilliant screenplay" and calling the film a "minor gem".^[5]

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[edit] External links

• La Cucaracha at the Internet Movie Database
• La Cucaracha at Box Office Mojo
• La Cucaracha at Rotten Tomatoes

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