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Instructions Not Included (2013)

★ 7.7 · 954 ratings on TMDB

Life doesn't care if you're ready.

Instructions Not Included poster★ 7.7

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.

DirectorEugenio Derbez
CastAgustín Bernal, Arcelia Ramírez, Ari Brickman, Daniel Raymont, Eugenio Derbez, Hugo Stiglitz
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Instructions Not Included keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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