Nacho Libre
- Release Date
- June 16, 2006
- Director
- Jared Hess
- Cast
- Jack Black , Ana de la Reguera , Hector Jimenez , Darius Rose , Moises Arias , Carlos Maycotte
- Runtime
- 91
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Writers
- Jared Hess , Jerusha Hess , Mike White
- Tagline
- He's nacho average hero
- Website
- http://www.nacholibre.com/
Summary
Nacho (Jack Black) is a man without skills. After growing up in a Mexican monastery, he is now a grown man and the monastery’s cook, but doesn’t seem to fit in. Nacho cares deeply for the orphans he feeds, but his food is terrible – mostly, if you ask him, a result of his terrible ingredients. He realizes he must hatch a plan to make money to buy better food for “the young orphans, who have nothing” (…and if in doing so Nacho can impress the lovely Sister Encarnación, that would be a big plus). When Nacho is struck by the idea to earn money as a Lucha Libre wrestler, he finds that he has a natural, raw talent for wrestling. As he teams with his rail-thin, unconventional partner, Esqueleto (the Skeleton), Nacho feels for the first time in his life that he has something to fight for and a place where he belongs. As Lucha is strictly forbidden by the church elders at the monastery, Nacho is forced to lead a double life. Disguised by a sky blue mask, Nacho conceals his true identity as he takes on Mexico’s most famous wrestlers and takes on a hilarious quest to make life a little sweeter at the orphanage. The creators of “Napoleon Dynamite” team up with the writer of “The School of Rock” for this offbeat comedy.
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