MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez jokes that it took him 12 years to become an overnight sensation.
The real punch line is that it took much longer.
The writer, director and star of the surprise Hollywood hit "Instructions Not Included" was a virtual unknown among the general audience in the U.S., where the film debuted on Labor Day weekend
.
Its success was shocking, climbing into the top five box office earners
with only a limited release. It's pulled in more than $43 million so
far in the U.S. alone, and roughly the same in Mexico. It cost just a
bit over $5 million to make.The story of an Acapulco playboy whose former lover dumps a baby at his door, "Instructions" unfolds as the Derbez character goes to the U.S. to find the girl's mother
and becomes a successful movie stunt man and devoted father in the process.Read more
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