Bésame En La Boca (film)

Bésame En La Boca
Directed byAbraham Cherem
Written byAbraham Cherem
Ricardo Del Río
Produced byHumberto Zurita
Christian Bach
Georgina Terán
StarringPaulina Rubio
Charlie Masso
Fernando Colunga
Leonardo García
Delia Casanova
Dolores Beristáin
Edited byÓscar Figueroa
Music byOmar Guzmán
Production
company
Distributed byTelevicine
Release date
  • June 23, 1995 (1995-06-23)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

Bésame En La Boca is a 1995 Mexican romance and fantasy film directed and written by Abraham Cherem and Ricardo Del Rio, and produced by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach. The film stars Latin pop singer Paulina Rubio, actors Charlie Masso, Fernando Colunga, Delia Casanova, Dolores Beristáin, and Leonardo García. The film was produced by Televicine and released on June 23, 1995 in Mexico. The plot centers on one young girl as she take an ancestral travel and changes body, finding herself and real love in the process.

Development on the film began in 1994, when Rubio created a concept inspired by Warren Beatty and Buck Henry's film Heaven Can Wait (1978) and Alexander Hall's Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), which was later expanded by Humberto Zurita and Christian Bach. Principal filming began in November 1994, and encompassed over a period of two months.

Critics gave mixed reviews to Bésame En La Boca; however, they considered it a better effort of Rubio as actress. Despite the film's response from critics, it was a box office success, Staying on the main billboard for six weeks. According to the website staff of the newspaper El Debate, at that time the film "brought thousands of young people to theaters to enjoy 'La Chica Dorada' [Rubio], who at that time had already scored her first hit, "Mío", and [Fernando] Colunga, who was beginning to emerge as a telenovelas actor."