from Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by
Pedro
Almodóvar
Starring
Cecilia Roth (Manuela)
Eloy Azorín (Esteban)
Marisa Paredes (Huma Rojo)
Penélope Cruz (Hermana Rosa)
Candela Peña (Nina)
Antonia San Juan (La Agrado)
Rosa María Sardá (Madre de Rosa)
Toni Cantó (Lola, La Pionera)
Fernando Fernán Gómez
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo
Fernando Guillén
Carlos Lozano
Written by
Pedro Almodóvar
Original music by
Alberto
Iglesias
Rated: 
(for sexuality including strong sexual dialogue, language and
some drug content)
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 After her 17-year-old
son, Esteban, dies in a car accident, devastated single mother
Manuela (Cecilia Roth) leaves Madrid for Barcelona to find Esteban's
long estranged father. Once there, she encounters a bevy of kooky
characters - a lesbian actress (Marisa Paredes), a transvestite
prostitute (Antonia San Juan), and a pregnant nun (Penelope Cruz)
- who soon make up her support system.
Official Site - trailers and photos
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1999
Academy Award®
Best Foreign Language Film
12/7/99 The National Board of Review names
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER Best Foreign Language Film.
12/11/99 The Los Angeles Film Critics Association
named ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER the Best Foreign Film.
12/16/99 The New York Film Critics Circle
names ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER the Best Foreign Film.
1/23/00 ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER is awarded a
Golden Globe for Best Non-English Language Film.
All
About My Mother [VHS - English subtitles]
All
About My Mother [DVD]
Almodóvar
on Almodóvar
by Pedro Almodóvar, Yves Baigneres, Frederic Strauss
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the Spanish Lens: Spanish Cinema Under Fascism and Democracy
by Peter Besas
Contemporary
Spanish Cinema
by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
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