A Boyfriend for My Wife

Un Novio Para Mi Mujer (English: A Boyfriend For My Wife) is a blockbuster[1] 2008 Argentine romantic comedy film directed by Juan Taratuto and starring Adrián Suar, Valeria Bertuccelli, and Gabriel Goity.[2]

Un novio para mi mujer
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJuan Taratuto
Written byPablo Solarz
StarringAdrián Suar
Valeria Bertuccelli
Gabriel Goity
Edited byPablo Barbieri Carrera
Music byIván Wyszogrod
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 14 August 2008 (2008-08-14)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

It was the highest grossing Argentine film in 2008.[3] In 2009, Warner Bros. bought the rights of the film.[3] A South Korean remake directed by Min Kyu-dong, All About My Wife, was released in 2012.[4] Pantelion Films released a Mexican remake called Busco novio para mi mujer in 2016. An Italian remake was also released, called "Un Fidanzato Per Mia Mogile", in 2014. A Tamil remake, Hey Sinamika was released in 2022, with dubbed versions in Malayalam, Telugu and other Indian languages.

Plot

The film is about "Tenso" (Suar), a timid husband who is fed up with his wife "Tana" (Bertuccelli) who dislikes and complains about everything. He hires "Cuervo" Flores (Goity), a professional Casanova to seduce Tana, hoping this will make her divorce him. To aid with that seduction, Tenso gets his wife Tana a job at a local radio station where her morning talk show complaining about what she dislikes becomes popular. Cuervo proceeds to try to seduce Tana and professes to Tenso that he has fallen in love with Tana. Tenso confesses to Tana that he had set up the seduction, and she confesses that she has been seduced by the radio station manager. Tenso and Tana proceed with a divorce, and, reconcile before the divorce can be finalized.

Cast
  • Adrián Suar as Diego "Tenso" Polski
  • Valeria Bertuccelli as Andrea "Tana" Ferro
  • Gabriel Goity as "Cuervo" Flores
  • Marcelo Xicarte as Carlos, "Tenso"'s friend
  • Luis Herrera as "Negro", "Tenso"'s friend
  • Martín Salazar as Gabriel, "Tenso"'s friend
  • Oscar Núñez as Amílcar
  • Benjamín Amadeo as Damián Kepelsky, a local radio station's host and "Tana"'s boss
  • Mercedes Morán as the voice of Blanca, a couples therapist
  • Julieta Zylberberg as María, a receptionist at Kepelsky's radio station
  • Violeta Urtizberea as Paola, Carlos' younger wife
  • Lucía Maciel as Lorena, Paola's sister
  • Daniel Casablanca as Marito

Remakes
Year Film Language Director Cast
2012 All About My Wife Korean Min Kyu-dong Im Soo-jung, Lee Sun-kyun and Ryu Seung-ryong
2014 Un Fidanzato Per Mia Mogile Italian Davide Marengo Geppi Cucciari, Paolo Kessisoglu and Luca Bizzarri
2016 Busco novio para mi mujer Mexican Spanish Enrique Begne Sandra Echeverría, Arath de la Torre and Jesús Ochoa (actor)
2022 Hey Sinamika Tamil Brinda (choreographer) Dulquer Salmaan, Aditi Rao Hydari and Kajal Aggarwal

References
  1. ""Un novio para mi mujer", arriba". Clarín (Argentine newspaper). Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  2. "Un novio para mi mujer (2008)". Cinenacional.com. Retrieved 2013-01-03.
  3. ""Un novio para mi mujer", a Hollywood". Clarín (Argentine newspaper). Retrieved 2013-01-04.
  4. "Actress Im’s upcoming film revealed to be Argentinean remake". The Korea Herald. April 5, 2012.


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