Tijuana Makes Me Happy

Tijuana Makes Me Happy (2007)

Happiness lies at the bottom of Tijuana.

Every man remembers how hard it is being 15 years old: Your voice is cracking, your hormones are raging, school is boring, the girl you love is a young prostitute who won't go out with you because you don't have enough cash, so you start smuggling drugs across the border in order to save enough money to buy a rooster so you can enter a cockfight and win her love. It's a tale as old as time itself. Tijuana Makes Me Happy, which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Slamdance Film Festival, is both a charming coming-of-age story and a celebration of the most infamous of all Mexican border towns.

Date of release
2007-01-01
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Romance
Director
Dylan Verrechia

Casting

Interesting facts

Dylan Verrechia is a Dane Barthélemois award-winning film director, auteur, screenwriter, director of photography, and producer, with ankylosing spondylitis and multiple sclerosis. He is best known for his trilogy: Tijuana Makes Me Happy, Tierra madre, and La Pura Vida, which won him among many other accolades the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at Slamdance, Best Mexican Fiction Feature Special Mention at Morelia International Film Festival, and Best Narrative Feature at Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival.

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