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Title Santitos / Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía fondo par la produccíon Cinematográfica de Calidad, Co. Tabasco Films fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfia, Mact Productions fonds sud cinema ; C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures ; Goldheart Pictures ; producers, Alejandro Springall, Claudia Florescando ; writer, Maria Amparo Escandon ; director, Alejandro Springall.

Publication Info. Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003]
©1997

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  SPA DVD SANTITOS    Check Shelf
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
Based on the novel by María Amparo Escondón.
Credits Director of photography, Xavier Perez Grobet ; editor, Carol Dysinger ; original music, Carlo Nicolau, Rosino Serrano.
Cast Delores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Fernando Torre Lapham, Ana Bertha Espín, Regina Orozco, Luis Felipe Tovar, Dario T. Pié.
Summary After the widowed Esperanza loses her daughter to a rare virus, she searches her faith for an explanation. When St. Jude appears to her and tells her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza becomes convinced her daughter was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. Becoming a prostitute, she sets out to find her daughter in Tijuana. She eventually finds her way to Los Angeles where she unexpectedly finds true love.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
System Details DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital, Dolby surround, single-layer.
Awards Cartagena Film Festival, 2000: Golden India Catalina - Best Actress (Dolores Heredia); Best Production Design (Eugenio Caballero, Salvador Parra).
Language Spanish dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject St. Jude -- Drama.
Children -- Death -- Drama.
Prostitution -- Mexico -- Baja California -- Tijuana -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Foreign films -- Mexico.
Added Author Springall, Alejandro.
Florescando, Claudia.
Heredia, Dolores.
Bichir, Demián, 1963-
Estrella, Alberto.
Torre Lapham, Fernando.
Espín, Ana Bertha.
Orozco, Regina.
Tovar, Luis Felipe.
Pié, Dario T.
Pérez Grobet, Xavier, 1964-
Dysinger, Carol.
Nicolau, Carlo.
Serrano, Rosino.
Escandón, María Amparo. Esperanza's box of saints. Spanish.
Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía.
Cinematográfica de Calidad (Firm)
Tabasco Films (Firm)
Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica (Firm)
Mact Productions.
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures (Firm)
Goldheart Pictures (Firm)
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Standard No. 024543090823
Music No. 2009082 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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