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My Name Ain't Johnny is a brésilien film of genre Drama with Selton Mello

My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)

My Name Ain't Johnny
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Length 1h58
OriginBresil
Genres Drama,    Crime
Rating71% 3.597713.597713.597713.597713.59771

Meu Nome Não É Johnny (English: My Name Ain't Johnny) is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Mauro Lima. A box office hit, it was one of the 14 films considered by the Ministry of Culture to represent Brazil in the competition for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 ceremony. The film was based on the book Meu Nome Não é Johnny by Guilherme Fiuza.



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Synopsis

The film narrates the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, an upper-middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Actors

Selton Mello

(João Guilherme Estrella)
Cléo Pires

(Sofia)
Júlia Lemmertz
Cássia Kis

(Juíza Marilena Soares)
Tammy Di Calafiori

(Laura adolescente / teen)
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