Instructions Not Included (2013) on Netflix
Valentín, Acapulco's playboy, is handed a baby girl, Maggie, by a former fling who says the child is his, then disappears. He takes her to Los Angeles to find her mother.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.5/1034,791 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes63%
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Plot summary
As a boy in Mexico, Valentín Bravo fears heights and spiders, and his father Juan, known as Johnny, tries to cure him by putting a tarantula on him and throwing him off the cliff at La Quebrada. Valentín grows into Acapulco's playboy. One day Julie, a former fling, arrives at his door with a baby girl, Maggie, saying the child is his, then leaves and does not come back. Valentín hitchhikes with Maggie toward the border and crosses into the United States, carrying only a photo of Julie taken outside a Los Angeles hotel. When Maggie falls into a hotel pool, he dives from a suite ten stories up to pull her out, and a movie director offers him work as a stuntman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Instructions Not Included (2013)
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- Instructions Not Included became the highest-grossing Spanish-language film in North America and the fourth highest-grossing foreign film of all time in the United States, taking $44.5 million there and $100.5 million worldwide.
- In Mexico the film's opening weekend took a record-breaking $11.52 million from 2,755 screens, the biggest opening for a Mexican film ever, doubling the $5.5 million record set by El Crimen del Padre Amaro.
- It went on to become the highest-grossing Mexican film of all time, passing the $26.3 million record held by the 2013 film Nosotros los Nobles.
