All About My Mother (1999)

27 August 1999

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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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  • Release Date
  • 27 August 1999
  • Cast
  • Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz
  • Director
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Writer
  • Pedro Almodóvar
  • Company
  • 20th Century Fox
  • Genre
  • Comedy, Drama
  • Cert
  • 15
  • Runtime
  • 101 minutes
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