Cassandro

2023
15
1h 47m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

4.3K

YOUR RATING

Fom Luchador to legend. Don't miss the inspiring true story that is Cassandro - in select U.S. theaters September 15 and streaming globally on Prime Video September 22.

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Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.

Director
- Roger Ross Williams
Writers
- David Teague
- Roger Ross Williams
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

4.3K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Roger Ross Williams
Writers
- David Teague
- Roger Ross Williams
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 13 nominations total

Videos10

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Cassandro

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How Winning an Oscar Changed Roger Ross Williams' Life

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Gael García Bernal Answers IMDb's Burning Questions

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Cassandro: Cassandro Prepares For The Ring

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Cassandro: The Kiss

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Trivia
Exóticos are male wrestlers dressed in drag portraying gay caricatures. While most exóticos were straight, both Babe Sharon and Saúl Armendáriz (Cassandro) were gay.

Connections
Featured in Amanda the Jedi Show: I Watched 45 Movies in 1 Week | 'Talk to Me' and the Best Movies of Sundance 2023 Explained (2023)

Soundtracks
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Written by Byron Brizuela / Enrique Carbajal / Cecilla Brizuela
Performed by Byron Brizuela / Enrique Carbajal / Cecilla Brizuela
Edited by Hatton Road Music / Seven Mile Lane Music
Courtesy of de Latin Music Publishing

User reviews13

Featured review

6/10

Bland Tale of an Interesting Life

I watched some footage of the actual Cassandro after we finished the movie, and it showed just how tame and bloodless this movie was. Why was Gael locked into this one bad haircut when Cassandro had great, grand hair?

This tameness also brings the storytelling down to a very banal level; the love story, the career rise-nothing felt like it had any real stakes. Only the relationship between Saúl and his mother raised this by-the-numbers biopic above the snooze-level.

I'm glad to have learned of this fascinating world of Lucha Libre and this interesting corner of queer culture, the Exoticas, but it could have been so much more fun.