Don't Tell Anyone

Don't Tell Anyone

Lima's most scandalous story

NR 1998 · 103 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy, Drama

Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish father, then as an independent lazy pot-smoking college student, and later as a cocaine addict in Lima and Miami.

Directed by Francisco J. Lombardi · Written by Jaime Bayly

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