Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Carmen Maura
Pepa
Antonio Banderas
Carlos
Julieta Serrano
Lucía
María Barranco
Candela
Rossy de Palma
Marisa
Kiti Mánver
Paulina Morales
Guillermo Montesinos
Taxi Driver
Chus Lampreave
Jehovah's Witness Goalkeeper
Eduardo Calvo
Lucía's Father
Loles León
Secretary
Ángel de Andrés López
Police I
Fernando Guillén
Iván
Juan Lombardero
Germán
José Antonio Navarro
Police II
Ana Leza
Ana
Mary González
Lucía's Mother
Lupe Barrado
Secretaria Paulina
Joaquín Climent
Police I Spot
Chema Gil
Police II Spot
Gabriel Latorre
Priest
Francisca Caballero
TV Announcer
Carlos García Cambero
Breakdown Employee
Agustín Almodóvar
Real Estate Employee
Carmen Espada
Pharmacist
Federico García Cambero
Pharmacy Clerk
Gregorio Ros
Doctor
Imanol Uribe
Husband
José Marco
Godfather
Director, Screenplay, Story
Pedro Almodóvar
Theatre Play
Jean Cocteau
April 11, 2024
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"I was a virgin this morning, but I'm not sure now...". Well after ninety minutes of these shenanigans, I'm surprised she was even certain about the morning. The story follows actress "Pepa" (Carmen Maura) who is despondent after being left by boyfriend "Iván" (Fernando Guillén). Determined to find out why, and pregnant, she contacts his former wife "Lucia" (Julieta Serrano), herself fresh from a lengthy stint in a sanatorium and living with her rather geeky looking twenty-something son "Carlos" (Antonio Banderas) but they can't really shed much light on his behaviour either. Whilst all this is going on, a group of terrorists is believed to have carried out an atrocity in Madrid and it might be that her best friend "Candela" (Marisa Barranco) could be mixed up as she had them stay in her apartment for an evening of furious jogging - so now she's in hiding. With the media and the cops on the trail of the killers, Pedro Almodóvar now crams enough slapstick comedy into this to rival anything Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau ever did. There's nothing nor anybody left out - even a bleach blond gay guy and some ridiculous high heeled antics to keep the pace rocketing along til a denouement that closes the story, but that hardly matters. This is about the characters and both Maura and and Barranco are on entertaining form delivering a pithy and humorous script as the plot lurches from the daft to the dafter. Well worth a watch this.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
Spanish
Budget:
$700,000.00
Revenue:
$7,179,298.00