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Tetro is a 2009 drama film written, directed, and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich, and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. An international co-production between the United States, Argentina, Spain, and Italy, the film received a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on June 11, 2009.
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Plot
Shortly before his eighteenth birthday, Bennie Tetrocini, son of abusive, famous conductor Carlo Tetrocini, runs away from his prep school and gets a job as a cruise line waiter. His ship breaks down in Buenos Aires, the home of his half-brother Angelo, who left the family when Bennie was young to pursue his writing. Angelo's mother Angela died in a car accident, and Bennie's mother has been comatose for almost a decade.
Bennie finds that Angelo, who insists on being called "Tetro", is argumentative, demands he leave as soon as the ship is fixed, and refuses to acknowledge them as brothers, but his girlfriend Miranda, a psychiatrist who met him when he was institutionalized, is welcoming. When she mentions Angela's death, Bennie deduces that Tetro was driving when she died. On Bennie's birthday, Tetro explains that a play he wrote was about their family and featured Carlo and his mentor brother Alfie, also a conductor, who he abandoned after finding success and pressured to conduct under a different last name.