Do It for Me () is a 1997 Spanish thriller drama film directed by and written by Juan Miguel Hernández. It stars Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Carlos Hipólito, and Nancho Novo.
Plot Dull bourgeois man Andrés Uriarte inherits his father's family business in which he meets femme fatale Isabel Velasco (herself in a relationship with brutish immate Paco Reina), sleeping with her in a nightclub. Isabel ends up suggesting Andrés that she and a friend may kidnap Andrés' son David so Andrés' father-in-law pays for the ransom.
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Production Do It for Me was produced by El Desierto, and it had the collaboration of Canal+.
Release The film screened in the competitive slate of the 18th Mostra de València in October 1997, with Guillén Cuervo winning the best female performance award. Distributed by UIP, it was released theatrically in Spain on 7 November 1997.
Reception Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be an "unpretentious, low-budget kidnap thriller" writing that, while nothing is too original, the film "is strong in not sacrificing its human elements to plot demands".
Warning that his film review was not self-criticism due to match of given name and family name with the director, Ángel Fernández-Santos of El País wrote that the plot suffers from "a very superficial, unsustainable, and at times painful arbitrariness".
See also List of Spanish films of 1997
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