All about my mother

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Internationally acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodóvar delivers his finest film yet, a poignant masterpiece of unconditional love, survival and redemption. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, she's built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her son's final wish was to know his father - the man she abandoned when she was pregnant 18 years earlier. Returning to Barcelona in search of him, Manuela overcomes her grief and becomes caregiver to a colorful family: a pregnant nun (Penélope Cruz), a transvestite prostitute (Antonia San Juan), and two troubled actresses (Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña). With riveting performances, unforgettable characters and creative plot twists, this touching screwball melodrama is an absolute stunner.

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Comedy films
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Foreign films
Foreign films -- Spain
Grief
Grief -- Drama
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Drama
Motion pictures
Motion pictures, Spanish
Motion pictures--Europe
Motion pictures--Spain
Queer cinema
Single mothers
Single mothers -- Drama

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Contributors:
Roth, Cecilia,1958-actor
Almodovar, Pedro,film director
Kanopy (Firm)
Roth, Cecilia,actor
Sony Pictures (Firm)
ISBN:
9781681436821
9781435993693
9781681436838
UPC:
043396332232
715515240611
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Queer cinema
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Queer cinema
Single mothers
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