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Certificate 15

Cast Cecilia Roth Marisa Paredes Candela Pena Antonia San Juan Penelope Cruz Rosa Maria Sarda

Directors Pedro Almodovar

Screenwriters Pedro Almodovar

Running Time 106 minutes

All About My Mother
Almodovar's 'screwball melodrama' of mother love, grief, obsession and acting.

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Plot
Traumatised by the death of her son, a Spanish mother leaves for Barcelona where she seeks out old acquaintances.

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