Toc Toc

Toc Toc is a 2017 Spanish comedy film directed by Vicente Villanueva, starring Rossy de Palma, Paco León, Inma Cuevas, Oscar Martínez, Alexandra Jiménez, Adrián Lastra and Ana Rujas and distributed by Warner Bros.[2] The film portrays a group of patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The film's title is a play on words in Spanish, with “toc” being both the onomatopoeia for “knock” and the abbreviation for OCD in Spanish (trastorno obsesivo compulsivo).[3] It is the film adaptation of a French play by Laurent Baffie.[4]

Toc Toc
Directed byVicente Villanueva
Written byVicente Villanueva
Based onToc Toc
by Laurent Baffie
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyDavid Omedes
Edited byAlejandro Lázaro
Music byAntonio Escobar
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) (Spain)
Running time
90 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish
Box office$7.2 million[1]

The film was shown during the summer of 2018 as part of the Cine de Verano in Seville, Spain.[5]

Plot

The movie opens showing five people who manifest OCD in various ways and one person who has Tourette syndrome. Blanca has Contamination OCD. Thus, she avoids touching people or surfaces and, if unavoidable, uses antibiotic wipes or washes her hands. Ana Maria has checking OCD wherein she repeatedly checks the faucet, her keys, etc. Emilio is an arithmomaniac with compulsive hoarding who crunches numbers and hoards. Otto compulsively organizes and avoids stepping on lines and cracks. Lili has echolalia and palilalia wherein she repeats phrases others say as well as her own. Lastly, Federico has motor tics, copropraxia and coprolalia and makes obscene gestures and utters vulgar phrases.

Each think they have an appointment for a private session with a famous psychologist, but arrive to find others have appointments at the same time and that the doctor is delayed. While waiting for the doctor to arrive, they get to know each other and, finally, decide to do their own group therapy session.

The session is successful insofar as all the patients feel they have briefly overcome their compulsions and can build on that success. They agree to meet once a week on their own to continue working together. At the end, it is revealed that one of the "patients" is actually the doctor. As the credits roll, we see each of the patients making progress as they live their lives.

Cast

References
  1. "Toc Toc". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. Ruiz, Luis Fernando (4 June 2018). "TOC TOC, ¿quieres reír un rato?". You Rocket (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  3. Atresmedia Cine (6 October 2017). "Tráiler de 'Toc Toc', una comedia muy profunda". 20 Minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  4. O. Scholz, Pablo (17 June 2018). ""Toc Toc", por Netflix: un éxito, del escenario a la pantalla chica". Clarín (in Spanish). Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino S.A. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  5. Fernández, Ana (20 June 2018). "Más noches de película en el patio de la Diputación". Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Joly Digital. Retrieved 25 June 2018.


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