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Nacho Libre is a 2006 comedy film directed by Jared Hess. It is a production of Nickelodeon Movies....

Nacho Libre is a 2006 comedy film directed by Jared Hess. It is a production of Nickelodeon Movies. The script was written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, and Mike White. It was loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed. The producers are Jack Black, David Klawans, Julia Pistor, and Mike White. Ignacio (Jack Black) is the son of a Lutheran missionary from Scandinavia and a deacon from Mexico. They tried to convert each other but instead got married, then died while Ignacio was young. At the beginning of the film Ignacio is seen looking through his religious toys and books, and hidden inside his bible is a drawing of a masked wrestler titled Nacho. He steals various items (a table cloth, beads from a robe, a flower from a grave) and makes a wrestling costume. He briefly pretends to be a great wrestler but is caught by the monks and put to work in the kitchens as punishment for breaking the rules he is seen to vent his frustration using a wrestling move on a bowl of tortilla chips, before