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From the filmmaking team that brought us I Will Survive and Not Love, Just Frenzy comes this romantic comedy that takes a new spin on sexual attraction (let's just say that it's not queer PC). Marcos (Jorge Sanz of Belle Époque) is a handsome young country boy with doleful eyes who comes to the big city to work at his uncle's café. He quickly meets Daniel (Santiago Magill, the beauty from Don't Tell Anyone), a cute Boy George-loving actor with a sexy mane of hair, and the two fall in love. Nothing can seem to separate these two, that is until one evening at a karaoke bar. For while Marcos and Daniel sing "You're Just Too Good to Be True" on stage, a disco ball loosens and falls squarely on Marcos' head, knocking him out. When he recovers, it seems that the injury dislodged his homosexuality and he is now a straight man. Their relationship ends and Marcos promptly falls in love with Marisol (Tiaré Scanda), a beautiful Dominican immigrant who has been quietly longing for Marcos from afar. The now single Daniel, desperate to regain his man, devises a plan. Despite warnings from his best friend Carmen (Verónica Forqué from Kika and Matador) he concocts a scheme to impersonate a woman, and try to win back Marcos' affections. Fight fire with fire! A comedy, a love story, a tale of destiny and the vagrancies of love all set to a merengue-flavored soundtrack. (Spanish with English subtitles)

Raymond Murray