Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo (also known as How I Spent My Summer Vacation) is a 2012 American action film directed by Adrian Grunberg, produced, co-written by and starring Mel Gibson.
Plot
The film opens with a getaway driver and his wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American Border Patrol toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican police officers Vasquez and Romero. When they find over $2 million in the back seat of the car, they imprison him in El Pueblito prison under false charges, keep the cash for themselves, and cremate his dead accomplice. As one of the only Americans incarcerated there, the driver becomes known as "the Gringo".
More details
| author | Mel Gibson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Mexico |
| director | Adrian Grunberg |
| editor | Steven Rosenblum |
| genre | action crime thriller |
| keywords | arrest assassination attempt betray border patrol crime family el pueblito prison flee getaway driver happen hide kill la mesa prison meet mexican border petty theft plan police officer shipping magnate torture united states border patrol work out wound |
| musicBy | Antonio Pinto |
| producer | Bruce Davey Mel Gibson Stacy Perskie |
| productionCompany | Airborne Productions Icon Productions |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
| recordedAt | Mexico San Diego |
| theme | prison |