''Getaway Plan'' () is a 2017 Spanish

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film directed and written by Iñaki Dorronsoro which stars

Alain Hernández Alain Hernández (born 13 December 1975) is a Spanish actor. He has appeared in more than forty films since 2007, and has also worked in television. Life and career Hernández was born in Barcelona on 13 December 1975. His family owned a busine ...

, Javier Gutiérrez,

Luis Tosar Luis López Tosar (born 13 October 1971) is a Spanish actor from Galicia. He is one of the most recognizable and versatile actors in Spain. He landed his film debut in '' Atilano for President'' (1998), followed by other roles in feature fil ...

and Alba Galocha.

Plot

The plot follows Víctor, a criminal who teams up with an Eastern European criminal gang planning to pull a bank heist, hired to break the vault.

Cast

Production

Produced by LaZona, Runaway Films AIE and

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in association with ETB, it was shot in

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and

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

. The score was authored by whereas Sergi Vilanova took over the cinematography.

Mikel Lejarza Mikel Lejarza Eguía (born 1947 in Areatza, Spain) is a former member of the Spanish intelligence service. During the 1970s, he infiltrated the Basque separatist organisation ETA, providing safe houses in Spain to lodge their commandos. His secre ...

Mercedes Gamero Mercedes Gamero is a Spanish film producer and the head of Beta Fiction Spain since 2022. From 2009 to 2022, she served as general manager of Antena 3 Films/Atresmedia Cine. Biography She is from Viladecans, Catalonia and the daughter of acto ...

and David Naranjo were credited as producers.

Release

Distributed by

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, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 28 April 2017.

Reception

Mirito Torreiro of ''

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'' gave it 3 out of 5 stars, praising the performance of Alain Hernández, while negatively assessing the looks of (predefined) formula of the film. Reviewing for ''

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'', Raquel Hernández Luján gave the film 66 out of 100 points, deeming it to be a film displaying a good technical workmanship and a screenplay with ups and downs, highlighting the performances (particularly Gutiérrez') and the atmosphere, while considering that the film was dragged by a final stretch making it to fall apart and a "dispensable" and "cliche" sex scene with saxophone. Writing for ''

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'', Sergio F. Pinilla gave the film 2.5 out of 5 stars, writing that amid the plot there is a "

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-like" human story (that of Galocha's character) that the film is not able to bring forward "with solvency". Federico Marín Bellón of ''

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'' gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be a "''

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'' and powerful" thriller.

References

External links

''Getaway Plan''
at ICAA's ''Catálogo de Cinespañol'' {{authority control 2017 crime thriller films Spanish crime thriller films Films shot in Bilbao Films shot in Madrid 2010s Spanish-language films Spanish heist films Atresmedia Cine films 2010s Spanish films Spanish-language crime thriller films Warner Bros. films The Invisible Guest