Much Ado About Nothing () is a 2016 Chilean drama film directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras. It was shown in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
It was inspired by a real-life political scandal in Chile. In 2013, Martín Larraín, son of Senator Carlos Larraín (then-president of the right-wing party Renovación Nacional), was acquitted after killing a man in a DUI hit and run while his friends took the fall.
Plot Vicente, who resides in Los Angeles, returns to Chile to spend his summer at his parents' beach house. He is a reckless and somewhat solitary young man. However, one of those typical nights of pursuing girls and having drinks alters his life forever; he becomes the prime suspect in a hit-and-run accident that results in the death of a local fisherman. "I wasn't the one driving," he insists, but his memories are muddled. He does recall being in the car and that the driver was the son of a powerful politician.
Cast Agustín Silva as Vicente "Vicho" Maldonado Samuel Landea as Manuel Larrea Paulina García as Roxana Alejandro Goic as Uncle Julio Daniel Alcaíno as Prosecutor Yáñez Augusto Schuster as Diego Pilar Ronderos as Camila Geraldine Neary as Francisca Isabella Costa as Ana Victoria de Gregorio as Sofía Li Fridman as Lucía Mariana di Girolamo as María Luis Gnecco as Gustavo Barría
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