{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox film | image = Los managers poster.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Fernando Guillén Cuervo | screenplay = {{ubl|Miguel Ángel Fernández|Joaquín Gorriz|Fernando Guillén Cuervo}} | producer = {{ubl|Pedro Olea|Fernando Guillén Cuervo|Álvaro Augustin|Julio Fernández}} | starring = {{ubl|Enrique Villén|Fran Perea|Paco León|Manuel Tallafé|Sancho Gracia|Manuel Manquiña|Celine Tyll|Lauren Postigo|María Jiménez}} | cinematography = Néstor Calvo | studio = {{ubl|Altube & Cuervo|Estudios Picasso|Castelao Productions}} | country = Spain | language = Spanish | released = {{Film date|2006|07|07|df=yes}} }} '''''Los managers''''' is a 2006 Spanish comedy film directed by Fernando Guillén Cuervo. It stars Enrique Villén and Manuel Tallafé along with Fran Perea and Paco León.
== Plot == In order to get rich, sleazy jobless men Rena and Maca become the managers of brothers David and Pipo, moving them to Southern Spain to prepare their musical career as "Los Reyes del King", with washed up folkloric singer "La Rota" arranging a tour for them.<ref name="costa" />{{Sfn|Guadaño|2010|p=63}}<ref name="lavozdecadiz" />
== Cast == {{Cast listing| * Enrique Villén as Maca<ref name="lavozdecadiz" /> * {{ill|Manuel Tallafé|es}} as Rena<ref name="lavozdecadiz" /> * Fran Perea as David<ref name="rinconete">{{Cite journal|date=17 October 2007|title=Los mánagers|via=Centro Virtual Cervantes|issn=1885-5008|first=Guzmán|last=Urrero Peña|journal=Rinconete|url=https://cvc.cervantes.es/el_rinconete/anteriores/octubre_07/17102007_01.htm}}</ref> * Paco León as Pipo<ref name="rinconete" /> * María Jiménez as La Rota<ref name="linares" /> * Sancho Gracia as Josete<ref name="lavozdecadiz">{{Cite web|url=https://www.lavozdigital.es/pg060705/actualidad/cultura/200607/05/pelicula-managers-guillen-cuervo.html|date=5 July 2006|title=Guillén Cuervo debuta dirigiendo a Paco León y Fran Perea en 'Los managers'|publisher=Grupo Vocento|website=La Voz de Cádiz}}</ref> * Celine Tyll as Irina<ref name="filmax">{{Cite web|url=https://filmax.com/produccion/los-managers/168|website=Filmax|access-date=24 August 2025|title=Los managers}}</ref> * {{ill|Lauren Postigo|es}} as himself<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2006/12/10/actualidad/1165736929_850215.html|website=El País|date=10 December 2008|title=Fallece Lauren Postigo de un ataque cardíaco en Madrid}}</ref> * Manuel Manquiña<ref name="linares">{{Cite web|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2006/07/07/cine/1152223206_850215.html|date=7 July 2007|first=Mariana|last=Linares|title='Los managers' mezcla la comedia, el musical y el 'road movie'|website=El País}}</ref> }}
== Production == The screenplay was written by Fernando Guillén Cuervo along with Joaquín Gorriz and Miguel Ángel Fernández.<ref name="fanzine" /> The film was produced by Altube & Cuervo, Estudios Picasso, and Castelao Producciones. Filming began on 23 May 2005.<ref name="fanzine">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fanzinedigital.com/cine/1206_1-Fran_Perea_y_Paco_Leon_victimas_de_Los_managers.html|website=Fanzine Digital|date=28 June 2005|title=Fran Perea y Paco León, víctimas de 'Los managers'}}</ref> Shooting locations included the {{ill|Nueva Umbría beach|es|Playa de Nueva Umbría}} in Lepe.<ref>{{Cite web|website=Huelva Información|publisher=Grupo Joly|title=Paco León y la playa de Huelva en la que rodó una conocida película española junto a Fran Perea|date=9 September 2024|url=https://www.huelvainformacion.es/huelva/paco-leon-playa-huelva-rodo-conocida-pelicula-espanola-junto-fran-perea_0_2002356329.html}}</ref>
== Release == The film was released theatrically in Spain on 7 July 2006.<ref name="costa" /> It proved to be a relative success in the Spanish box office, ranking 7th in earnings for domestic films in 2006, with over 400,000 in-year admissions.{{Sfn|Guadaño|2010|p=66}}
== Reception == {{ill|Jordi Costa|es}} of ''Fotogramas'' rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, declaring it as a "wasted opportunity" with the film "burdening its occasional successes under the weight of what has been ruined".<ref name="costa">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a12055/los-managers/|date=29 May 2008|title=Los mánagers|first=Jordi|last=Costa|website=Fotogramas}}</ref>
Javier Ocaña of ''El País'' wrote that "[crafted with] eminently commercial pretensions", the product "maintains a firm sense of dignity in its first half, but falls apart when the story abandons naturalism and picaresque elements".<ref>{{Cite web|website=El País|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2006/07/07/cine/1152223205_850215.html|title=Recreo en el fracaso|date=7 July 2006|first=Javier|last=Ocaña|author-link=Javier Ocaña}}</ref>
== See also == * List of Spanish films of 2006
== References == {{reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{Cite journal|journal=Weber. The Contemporary West|title=When Thesis Films Don't Work. Representational Strategies and Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Film|first=Luis|last=Guadaño|volume=26|issue=2|location=Ogden, UT|publisher=Weber State University|issn=0891-8899|url=https://www.weber.edu/wsuimages/weberjournal/pdf%202012%20prior/springsummer10.pdf|pages=55–68|year=2010}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|tt0468045}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Managers, Los}} Category:Castelao Producciones films Category:Films set in Spain Category:Films shot in the province of Huelva Category:2006 Spanish-language films Category:2006 comedy films Category:2006 Spanish films