All About My Mother


All About My Mother Spanish Todo sobre mi madre is a 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan, Penlope Cruz and Candela Pea.

The film centers on Manuela, an Argentine nurse who oversees donor organ transplants in Ramn y Cajal Hospital in Madrid and single mother to Esteban, a teenager who wants to be a writer.On his seventeenth birthday, Esteban is hit by a car and killed while chasing after actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, in which she portrays Blanche DuBois. Manuela has to agree with her colleagues at work that her sons heart be transplanted to a man in A Corua. After traveling after her sons heart, Manuela quits her job and journeys to Barcelona, where she hopes to find her sons father, Lola, a transvestite she kept secret from her son, just as she never told Lola they had a son. ........

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