Genre:
Comedy

Synopsis:
Can a hopeless geek win the heart of the impossibly hot new girl at school? One fanboy hopes the answer can be "yes" in this teen-centric comedy from Chile. Roberto (Ariel Levy) is 17 years old, draws comics in his spare time when he isn't busy reading them, and likes to imagine himself an invincible superhero called "The Strange Obesity of Being." However, Roberto's daily life is anything but heroic; he's the target of cruel jokes from most of his classmates, and his only friends are a pair of fellow outcasts, nerdy Papitas (Sebastian "Berta" Muniz) and Condoro (Nicolas Martinez), who has a less-than-wholesome interest in girls. When beautiful Cristina (Xenia Tostado) arrives from Spain and enrolls at the same school as Roberto, he immediately falls head over heels in love, and is determined to make her his own. However, there's a problem -- she already has eyes for Fele (Benjamin Vicuna), the Big Man On Campus who is Roberto's nemesis and wants to make Cristina his next conquest.
(from movies.nytimes.com)

Casts:
Ariel Levy ... Roberto Rodriguez
Xenia Tostado ... Cristina Santelices
Benjamín Vicuña ... Fele
Nicolas Martinez ... Condoro
Berta Muñiz ... Papitas
Fernando Larraín ... Manolo
Tatiana Astengo ... Enfermera Berta Bravo
María Cristina Peña y Lillo ... Marcela
Fernando Farías ... Abuelo de Roberto
Teresita Reyes ... Madre de Roberto
Ernesto Belloni ... Padre de Fele
Katty Kowaleczko ... Madre de Fele
Eduardo Bertran ... Marcos
Santiago Segura ... Doctor
Daniel Segal ... Padre de Condoro
Tania Abaud ... Madre de Condoro
Juan Andres Salfate ... Jabba

Superheroes:
The Strange Obesity of Being

Villains:
Gym-Man

Runtime:
100 min

Country:
Spain + Chile

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