My Name Ain't Johnny
Release date: 2008-01-04
Votes: 276
Genres: Crime, Drama
The true story of João Guilherme Estrella ("Johnny"), a young middle-class bon vivant who became a big-time cocaine dealer in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s.
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