Miserable Life

Miserable Life (Spanish: Terca vida) is a 2000 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Fernando Huertas [es] which stars Santiago Ramos and Luisa Martín alongside Manuel Alexandre, Juan Jesús Valverde, Jorge Bosch, and Lola Dueñas.

Set in a working-class area of Madrid, around Hortaleza, the plot follows a group of people trying to get through their difficult lives by playing quinielas [es] (football pools), with their fate pending on the result of a FC Barcelona-Villarreal CF fixture.

[3] Shooting locations included Madrid.

[1] Distributed by Tri Pictures,[3] it was released theatrically in Spain on 17 November 2000.

Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be "a diverting neo-realist excursion into Impossible Dream territory", otherwise featuring "moments of charm and an attractive central idea" but also a "lack of glam".