Mad Bills to Pay: (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)(2026)

Name: Mad Bills to Pay: (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
Director: Joel Alfonso Vargas
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: Apr 17, 2026
Cast: Juan Collado, Destiny Checo, Yohanna Florentino, Nathaly Navarro, Gregory Requena

Oscilloscope

1h 41m
- Comedy
- Drama

Release Date: Apr 17, 2026 | Limited

Summer in The Bronx. He sells "nutcracker" cocktails, gets high, stays moving. Then she moves in. Two kids in a cramped apartment, playing house until the city reminds them how fast the streets make you grow up.

Releases

Original Release | Apr 17, 2026

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Box Office Results

Updated as of Apr 26, 2026 05:15 PM ET

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$23,055
Total US & Canada:
$29,899
Total Worldwide:
$29,899

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Director & Top Cast

Joel Alfonso Vargas
Director

Juan Collado
Rico

Destiny Checo
Destiny

Yohanna Florentino
Mami, Andrea

Nathaly Navarro
Sally

Gregory Requena
Police Officer 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom

Language: English,Spanish

Summaries

Storyline

In a tight-knit community in The Bronx, a teen spends the summer on a beach selling "nutcracker" cocktails, chasing girls and getting high. But when his underage girlfriend moves into his cramped apartment, their messy, complicated young love soon crashes with the hard truth of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one. — Perpetuum Films

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Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) tracks Rico (Juan Collado), a carefree 19-year-old Dominican-American hustling homemade cocktails on Orchard Beach, until girlfriend Destiny (Destiny Checho) gets pregnant and moves in with his Bronx family. Youthful dreams clash with poverty, family tensions, absent father figures, and cycles of fights, jobs, fines, and makeups as Rico grapples with impending fatherhood.