Beto is a penniless guy who mingles with rich people pretending to be rich himself. He employs cunning tricks to get away with his imposture, and also to avoid paying for the basic items of survival (like his rent, or cab fare). His goal is to enjoy life and to make love to beautiful rich women. His friendship with a car mechanic is instrumental to his schemes, since he is the one who provides him with cars "borrowed" from the garage where he works. Beto is mistaken with an international jewel thief.
Spin off from a very popular daily TV serial (telenovela). Class struggle in this film (as on the serial) comes down to the poor envying the rich. Not exactly a marxist approach, of course. The film is very thin on plot, and fills its running time with lots of scenes of jet set gatherings, yachts, natural landscapes, urban architecture, and, on the opposite end of the social spectrum, street scenes. There is no sophistication whatsoever in the humor, or in the narrative, but the succession of images is not exactly unpleasant.
Note: on IMDB, as in most other places, the spelling of the title is Beto Rockfeller, which is different from the film's title credits, but matches the spelling of the TV serial's title credits.
Rating: 31
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