Ladron Que Roba A Ladron

Cast: Fernando Colunga, Miguel Varoni, JoJo Henrickson, Ivonne Montero , Julie Gonzalo, Oscar Torres, Richard Azurdia, Tim Camarillo, Jonathon Downs
Language: English
Banner: Panamax Films
Director: Joe Menendez
Producer: Roni Eguia, James M. McNamara, Ben Odell
Camera: Adam Silver
Story: JoJo Henrickson
Screenplay: JoJo Henrickson
Music: Andres Levin
Distribution: Lionsgate Films
Year: 2007

Like 'Ocean’s Eleven,' if directed by Robin Hood and financed by Telemundo, 'Ladron Que Roba a Ladron' is an effervescent comedy coasting on the charisma of its stars.

Our Danny Ocean is Emilio (Miguel Varoni), a smooth thief with a hidden agenda. Together with his exuberantly coiffed partner, Alejandro (Fernando Colunga), Emilio plans to rob a Los Angeles infomercial king named Valdez (Saul Lisazo), who has made his fortune by selling snake-oil remedies to poor Latino immigrants.

The duo’s complicated scheme requires a crew acting as day laborers, but their regular accomplices have either been deported or imprisoned. Cue the zany recruitment montage.

Directed by Joe Menendez and written by Jose Angel Henrickson, 'Ladron Que Roba a Ladron' (“A Thief Who Robs a Thief”) hews to the conventions of the heist movie while adding a sweet, karmic kick. Forced to hire authentic day laborers — a valet parker to do the driving, a television repairman to handle electronics — Emilio and Alejandro create a gang that’s as much a microcosm of immigrant aspiration as an instrument of blue-collar revenge.

In one brilliantly funny scene, a Cuban refugee and actor (Oscar Torre) poses as a union organizer to persuade Valdez’s staff members to strike. When they ask which union they will be joining, the actor knows only one.

“SAG!,” he yells triumphantly. He may be an amateur criminal but he’s a professional survivor.

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