The Matador
A hitman and a salesman walk into a bar...
The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man.
- Director
- Richard Shepard
- Worldwide
- $17M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
14 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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The life of Danny Wright, a salesman forever on the road, veers into dangerous and surreal territory when he wanders into a Mexican bar and meets a mysterious stranger, Julian, who's very likely a hit man. Their meeting sets off a chain of events that will change their lives forever, as Wright is suddenly thrust into a far-from-mundane existence that he takes to surprisingly well … once he gets acclimated to it.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
The Matador returned 1.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $10M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $17M
- Release date
- May 12, 2005
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- Germany, Mexico
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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