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Excuse Me Darling, but Lucas Loved Me

1997 film by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2718460 ↗
Source-derived summary

Excuse Me Darling, but Lucas Loved Me (Spanish: Perdona bonita, pero Lucas me quería a mí) is a 1997 Spanish comedy film directed by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso in 1997. The film is an ensemble comedy in which the characters exhibited extreme stereotypes, causing some criticism that it exaggerated gay characters, to which the directors responded that heterosexual characters were also exaggerated and based on clichés.

Synopsis

Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos, and Toni led a quiet existence without major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, their homosexuality, and debts. The debts finally forced them to rent one of the bedrooms of their apartment. Lucas moved in with his long hair, his charming smile, and his muscular body to completely change the life and direction of their home. Lucas turned up dead but ... Who killed him? All had reasons for doing so, or maybe not.

Editorial summary

“Excuse Me Darling, but Lucas Loved Me” enters the record as 1997 film by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Excuse, Darling and Lucas can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-01-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Excuse, Darling and Lucas.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Excuse Me Darling, but Lucas Loved Me” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Excuse, Darling and Lucas provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2718460. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Excuse Me Darling, but Lucas Loved Me” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.