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Pigeon Drop (El cuento del tio)
Directed by Ignacio Guggiari
Argentina, Chile
2020
73 mins


During Christmas dinner, an Argentinian family finds out that their millionaire uncle has died. His relatives speculate about his generous inheritance, but everything changes when a woman arrives at midnight and introduces herself as the deceased's wife.
The head of the family, desperate about the possibility of losing everything, hides the body and forces the others to simulate a kidnapping. The plan is that, this way, the inheritance would be returned in the form of ransom payment.
A bag of money appears and the plan seems infallible, but it falls into crisis when everyone wants to take their part.
