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| Directed by | Mauro Lima |
| Written by | Guilherme Fiúza Mariza Leão Mauro Lima |
| Starring | Selton Mello Cleo Pires |
| Cinematography | Mitchell Amundsen |
| Studio | Globo Filmes |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Running time | 118 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
Meu Nome Não É Johnny (English: My Name Ain't Johnny) is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Mauro Lima. A box office hit, it was one of the 14 films considered by the Ministry of Culture to represent Brazil in the competition for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2008 ceremony. The film was based on the book Meu Nome Não é Johnny by Guilherme Fiuza.
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The film narrates the true story of João Guilherme Estrella, a middle-class man from the State of Rio de Janeiro that would become the head of the drug traffic in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[1]
Estrella was a young boy from an upper middle class family of the city of Niterói. Loved by his parents and worshipped by his friends, he lived an intensive life of partying. In the early 1990s, he adventured himself through the world of drugs. Investigated and later imprisoned by the police, his life is exposed by sensationalistic newspapers and magazines. Instead of parties, Estrella has to face the bench of the culprits to tell the story of his adolescenthood.