Peculiar Attraction

Peculiar Attraction

1988 · 90 min · ★ 6.4 · Comedy

A television director decides to make a show about the invasion of transvestites in Mar del Plata. He commissions one of his editors, Jorge Trolombati, who must infiltrate and impersonate one.

Directed by Enrique Carreras · Written by Juan Carlos Mesa

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