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Todo sobre mi madre / All About My Mother
Character: Sister María Rosa Sanz
Year: 1999
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: Rated R for sexuality including strong sexual dialogue, language and some drug content
Other Cast: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña
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A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child.
First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired.
She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, "All About Eve," and "Streetcar Named Desire," the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship.
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Three minutes are cut from the US version. The total running time of the Spanish version is 104 minutes.
Agrado's monologue was based on a real life event. When the electronic system of an Argentinian theater failed, the director suspended the show. Actress Lola Membrives decided to give the news to the audience and make them an offer: if they'd stay, they could listen to the narration of her life.
Manuela Coleman is a character from Pedro Almodóvar's earlier film, La Flor de mi secreto (1995).
The stage production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" portrayed in the film, actually uses the dialogue from the 1951 Elia Kazan film (A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)), not the original Tennessee Williams stage version.
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