(Just as a preliminary note, the description that amazon gives above is NOT for the movie Durval Discos...just be forewarned!)

Durval Discos is a quirky comedy about the long-haired record shop owner you can see on the DVD cover above. His greatest quirk is that he refuses to branch out into the world of CDs (or any other medium for that matter) at his little family-run shop, Durval Discos, which ONLY deals with vinyl! Customers and neighboring shopkeepers trickle in and we get a snapshot of what life in a sleepy outlying area of São Paulo must be like. But with an obviously exaggerated comic twist.

This is not the Brazil of Copacabana Beach or Sugarloaf Mountain, but rather the comical and mundane life of some mediocre Brazilians who end up in an impossible situation: through somewhat unbelievable plot twists, they end up with the custody of a kidnapped girl and have to take care of her, while trying not to land in jail. While the premise is cute and plausible for a comedy, the execution in the second half of the movie grows slowly more "cheezy," as the film slides from clever and funny to hairbrained and slapstick. My hopes from the first half were a bit dashed in the lacking second half, but I guess I was entertained enough not to be insulted! Good for a rainy day!