Todo sobre mi madre (1999)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Cecilia Roth | as | Manuela | | Marisa Paredes | as | Huma Rojo | | Candela Peña | as | Nina | | Antonia San Juan | as | Agrado | | Penélope Cruz | as | Sister María Rosa Sanz | | Rosa Maria Sardà | as | Madre de Rosa (as Rosa María Sardá) | | Fernando Fernán Gómez | as | Padre de Rosa | | Toni Cantó | as | Lola | | Eloy Azorín | as | Esteban | | Carlos Lozano | as | Mario | | Fernando Guillén | as | Doctor en 'Un tranvía llamado Deseo' | | Manuel Morón | as | Doctor 1 | | José Luis Torrijo | as | Doctor 2 | | Juan José Otegui | as | Ginecólogo |
| | Crew list: | | Pedro Almodóvar (Director) | | Pedro Almodóvar (Writer) |
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Review
A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired. She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, "All About Eve," and "Streetcar Named Desire," the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship. |
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