Turnip Top

Turnip Top is a 1987 Spanish road movie and comedy film directed and starred by José Sacristán, also featuring Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marisa Paredes, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Miguel Rellán, Amparo Baró, and Amparo Soler Leal.

Plot

The plot follows the aimless adventures of hitchhiking drifter Antonio and his encounters with a number of colourful characters.

Production

The film is an Incine, Lince Films, and Jet Films production. The screenplay was penned by Sacristán based on an original story by Sacristán and Carlos Pérez Merinero.

Release

The film was theatrically released on 20 January 1987. It made an in-year gross of 30,893,384 ₧.

Reception

Jordi Batlle Caminal of El País deemed Turnip Top to be "a film peppered with a thousand and one anecdotes and a motley crew of colorful characters", "comedy in its sad state".