7 Boxes (2012) on Netflix
TV-1420121h 45mAdventureCrimeDrama
Víctor, seventeen, is a pushcart porter in Mercado 4 who dreams of being famous. A contractor offers him money to carry seven boxes of unknown contents across the market, with Liz alongside.
- Netflix3.0/5
- IMDb7.1/106,695 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes97%
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Plot summary
It is a hot Friday in Asunción, and Víctor, seventeen, pushes a cart for customers in Mercado 4 while dreaming of being famous. Distracted, he lets a customer go and knows he must earn more that day. A contractor hands him a job: carry seven boxes whose contents he does not know across the market, paid with half of a torn hundred-dollar bill and the rest when he finishes. The contractor lends him a phone to follow the delivery. Liz walks the route with him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 7 Boxes (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Juan Carlos Maneglia, a regular visitor to Asunción's Mercado 4, started planning 7 Boxes in 2004, intending to film the porters and vendors who worked in that market.
- At the International Film Festival of San Sebastian, 7 Boxes won the "Films in Progress" award in what was the first unanimous decision in that festival's history.
