El Mariachi
With a guitar in his hand and a price on his head, he wasn't looking for trouble. But trouble came looking for him.
El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition.Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case.The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
- Director
- Robert Rodriguez
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $2M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
13 billed performers
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Story overview
What It's About
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El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
El Mariachi returned 282.5× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $7,225
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $2M
- Release date
- Feb 22, 1993
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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