Do It for Me

Do It for Me
Do It for Me
	Theatrical release poster
Spanish	Hazlo por mí
Directed by	Ángel Fernández Santos
Screenplay by	Juan Miguel Hernández
Produced by	Ángel Fernández Santos; Estrella de Miguel;
Starring	Cayetana Guillén Cuervo; Carlos Hipólito; Nancho Novo; Eulalia Ramón; Txema Blasco; Concha Leza; Jose Velázquez;
Cinematography	Juan Molina
Edited by	Fernando Pardo
Music by	Juan Carlos Cuello
Production; company	Producciones El Desierto
Distributed by	United International Pictures
Release dates	October 1997 (Mostra); 7 November 1997 (Spain);
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish

Do It for Me (Spanish: Hazlo por mí) is a 1997 Spanish thriller drama film directed by Ángel Fernández Santos [es] 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.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Cayetana Guillén Cuervo as Isabel Velasco^[4]
Carlos Hipólito as Andrés Uriarte^[4]
Nancho Novo as Paco Reina^[4]
Eulalia Ramón as Nuria Robles^[4]
Txema Blasco as Antonio Robles^[4]
Concha Leza as Lola Robles^[4]
José Velázquez as David^[4]
Laura Aparicio [es] as Luisa^[4]
Fernando Martín as comisario Ramos^[4]
Jorge Bosso as Miguel Castro^[4]
María Jesús Ruz as Pilar^[4]

Production

Do It for Me was produced by El Desierto, and it had the collaboration of Canal+.^[3]

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.^[5] Distributed by UIP,^[3] it was released theatrically in Spain on 7 November 1997.^[6]

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".^[3]

Warning that his film review was not self-criticism due to match of given name and family name with the director, Ángel Fernández-Santos^[a] of El País wrote that the plot suffers from "a very superficial, unsustainable, and at times painful arbitrariness".^[7]

Informational notes

↑ The film critic and occasional screenwriter, not to be confused with the director, filmmaker Ángel Fernández Santos [es], unrelated to the former.

References

↑ "Do It for Me". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 July 2026.
↑ Benavent 2000, pp. 284–285.
1 2 3 4 Holland, Jonathan (23 November 1997). "Do It For Me". Variety.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Benavent 2000, p. 285.
↑ Bono, Ferran (24 October 1997). "El filme francés "La vida de Jesús" vence en la Mostra de Valencia". El País.
↑ Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. pp. 285–286. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.
↑ Fernández-Santos, Ángel (18 November 1997). "Castillo de naipes". El País.

[7] The film critic and occasional screenwriter, not to be confused with the director, filmmaker Ángel Fernández Santos [es], unrelated to the former.

[1] "Do It for Me". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 20 July 2026.

[FOOTNOTEBenavent2000284–285-2] Benavent 2000, pp. 284–285.

[holland-3] 1 2 3 4 Holland, Jonathan (23 November 1997). "Do It For Me". Variety.

[FOOTNOTEBenavent2000285-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Benavent 2000, p. 285.

[5] Bono, Ferran (24 October 1997). "El filme francés "La vida de Jesús" vence en la Mostra de Valencia". El País.

[6] Benavent, Francisco María (2000). Cine español de los 90. Diccionario de películas, directores y temático. Bilbao: Ediciones Mensajero. pp. 285–286. ISBN 84-271-2326-4.

[8] Fernández-Santos, Ángel (18 November 1997). "Castillo de naipes". El País.

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