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Producer: | Gerardo Herrero | ||
Cinematography: | Alfredo Mayo | ||
Editing: | Fernando Pardo | ||
Distributor: | Sony Pictures | ||
Runtime: | 107 minutes | ||
Country: | Spain | ||
Language: | Spanish | ||
Budget: | €3 million | ||
Gross: | $5.7 million[1] |
Sex, Party & Lies (Spanish; Castilian: Mentiras y gordas|links=no|lit=Lies and Big Fat [Lies])[2] is a 2009 Spanish coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes,[3] starring Mario Casas, Yon González, Ana Polvorosa, Ana de Armas, Hugo Silva, Maxi Iglesias and Alejo Sauras.[4] [5]
Sex, Party and Lies is a Tornasol Films and Castafiore Films production. In December 2010, the Ministry of Culture of Spain—then led by Ángeles González Sinde, who had been one of the co-screenwriters of the film five years before becoming minister—granted the film's producing companies €1 million, thus sparking a row of public strutiny and examination.[6]
The film premiered at the Las Palmas Film Festival in March 2009.[7] [8] Distributed by Sony Pictures,[9] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 27 March 2009.[10] It opened with a box office gross of €1,813,000 in its debut weekend.