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Amazon MGMYou know that guy who is cute and lovable but also a walking trainwreck? Maybe you dated a few in college, or maybe you’ve seen one on the subway talking up a woman who seems way too impressive to waste her time with him. That’s basically Vine star and YouTuber Rudy Mancuso’s character, also named Rudy, at the start of his feature debut, Música—a musical comedy about self-discovery, manifestation, and, above all, the perils that await anyone who lets other people make their decisions for them.
Rudy (the character) is charismatic as hell and, as we discover before too long, he’s an exceptional musician with a pretty funny idea for a puppet show. (Even if his mom won’t stop calling his puppet, Diego, a “doll.”) The problem is, he’s still stuck in the “too many brilliant ideas, too little time or money” phase of his artistic career. From the outside, he mostly looks like a mess. But that doesn’t stop him from snagging two intelligent, beautiful women and foolishly trying to date them at the same time.
Música, which premiered this March at SXSW and makes its Prime Video debut on April 4, is about as openly (semi-)autobiographical as a movie can get. Mancuso has not only named his character after himself, but he’s also cast his real-life mother, Maria, to play his film’s busybody Brazilian matriarch. He has a puppet show in real life, and just like the movie’s Rudy, he also has synesthesia—which, in his case, means his brain turns random noises into music. And while it’s unclear if Mancuso himself ever lived out the love-triangle dilemma seen in this film, he did wind up dating his co-star, Camila Mendes, in real life, which explains the firecracker chemistry behind every sly smile they share on screen.
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