Nicotina

Directed by Hugo Rodriguez
Mexico
2003
93 mins
15
Print/sales Lightning Entertainment

Cast
Diego Luna
Marta Beláustegui
Lucas Crespi

This highly stylised Tarantinoesque crime caper stars Diego Luna and was a huge hit at the Mexican box office. Greed transforms into twisted desperation when a simple exchange goes awry, and the lives of amateur thieves, an obsessed hacker and ordinary people explode in a tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds. When the haze finally clears, computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have gone up in a cloud of smoke.

Winner of six 2004 Ariels.