Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
Machuca has generally received very positive reviews.
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Machuca was released in 2004 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 180 reviews, giving Machuca (2004) an average rating of 79%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 87%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 76%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Machuca than critics were.
With a score of 79%, Machuca is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2004, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2004 with similar scores include films like Spider-Man 2, Ray and Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War.
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