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Barcelona, Warner Bros. Pictures ; Castle Rock Entertainment ; Westerly Films presents ; written, produced & directed by Whit Stillman

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MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for drug content and a brief sex scene; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Barcelona

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Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1994

Warner Bros. Pictures ; Castle Rock Entertainment ; Westerly Films presents ; written, produced & directed by Whit Stillman

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In Barcelona, Spain during the last decade of the Cold War, Ted Boynton, the Spanish representative for a Chicago electric engine firm, plays host to his cousin, Fred Boynton, a lieutenant in the Navy. Ted is earnest and ambitious, but not a typical American salesman. Fred is an advance man for the Sixth Fleet's upcoming shore leave. They are smart but somewhat naive white-collar workers, who wear suits, are very serious about themselves, and who always try to sound impressive--in a senior seminar manner. The film questions the adequacy of overly civilized behavior in tough, real-world situations, the values that inform it, and the struggle to determine what those values are. In the end, this is a portrait of two capable, earnest young men destined for an imminent move into the ill-defined purgatory of middle management

Credits -- Cousin Fred -- Advance man -- Yankee deer -- Leather straps -- Montserrat -- Bible dancer -- Birth of a salesman -- Dangerous foreign man -- Physical beauty -- Burial not at sea -- Too early for dancing -- Too sensitive -- Havana harbor -- Red ants -- Not cut out for it -- Mouthing off -- Maneuver X -- The text -- Lover her too -- Looks like stealing -- Shooting -- Hospital -- Money's mine -- Word of Montserrat -- Fred remembers -- Dickie and Drucker -- The reality -- Ant analogy #2 -- Chance for happiness -- Cosa de Gringos -- End credits

live action

Whit Stillman's Barcelona