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Directed by | Santiago Limón |
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Adaptation by | Eduardo Cisneros Jason Shuman |
Based on | La usurpadora by Inés Rodena |
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Cinematography | Danny Hiele |
Edited by | Martha Poly Vil |
Music by | Amado López |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
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Box office | $883,218[1] |
La Usurpadora: The Musical is a 2023 musical crime comedy film directed by Santiago Limón from a screenplay he co-wrote with María Hinojos, based on the 1998 Mexican telenovela La usurpadora.[2] The film stars Isabella Castillo, Alan Estrada, Cecilia Toussaint, Susana Zabaleta and Jesús Ochoa, with special appearances by Alejandra Guzmán and Gabriela Spanic.
During a secret meeting with her lover in Las Vegas, Victoria meets a hotel employee identical to her, Valeria, and convinces her to switch lives.
Principal photography began in December 2021 in Mexico City and the Mexican states of Hidalgo, Jalisco, and Nayarit.[2]
The film received a preview screening in Tucson, Arizona, on March 22, 2023.[3] It was released theatrically in the United States on April 7, 2023, by Pantelion Films,[4][5] and in Mexico on April 12, 2023, by Videocine.[6][7]
Mary Aviles of Common Sense Media awarded the film three stars out of five.[8]