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All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre) is a 1999 film written and directed by the Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar. The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism, sexual identity, gender, religion, faith, and existentialism, but always with his classical tragicomedy touch, the film presents these serious issues with an edge of dark humour.

Contents 1 Plot 2 All About My Mother 3 Cast 4 Notes

[edit] Plot

The film tells the story of a nurse named Manuela (Roth) who works in Madrid and lives with her teenage son Esteban, who never knew his father, and wants to be a writer.

One night after watching a stage production of Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Esteban is running after the car of Huma Rojo (Paredes), the actress who plays Blanche DuBois in the play, to get an autograph when he is hit by a car and dies. Manuela sees the accident and, despondent, leaves Madrid to visit her son's father, Lola, who is a transvestite and a prostitute in Barcelona, and inform him of the existence of the son he never knew. While in Barcelona, Manuela reunites with an old friend, a warm and witty transsexual prostitute named Agrado (San Juan). She also meets and becomes deeply involved with Sister Rosa (Cruz), a young, pregnant nun who has known Manuela's ex-husband; and with Huma Rojo, the actress her son had admired.

Almodóvar ends the film with this dedication: "To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who act. To men who act and become women. To all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother."

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[edit] Cast

• Cecilia Roth as Manuela
• Marisa Paredes as Huma
• Antonia San Juan as Agrado
• Penélope Cruz as Rosa
• Candela Peña as Nina
• Rosa Maria Sardà as Rosa's Mother
• Eloy Azorin as Esteban
• Toni Cantó as Lola
• Fernando Fernán Gómez as Rosa's father

[edit] Notes