• Completed

All About my Mother

Movie poster All About my Mother

Details


  • French Release Date : May 19th, 1999

  • A film by : Pedro ALMODÓVAR

  • With : Penelope CRUZ, Candela PENA, Marisa PAREDES, Cecilia ROTH, Rosa MARIA SARDA, Antonia SAN JUAN

  • Genre : Drama

Synopsis


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.

fact sheet


  • Screenplay : Pedro ALMODÓVAR

  • Production year : 1999

  • Nationality(ies) : Spain

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