
Bad Education(2004)
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.


“Part of every woman is a mother/actress/saint/sinner. And part of every man is a woman.”
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.

Cecilia Roth
Manuela

Marisa Paredes
Huma

Candela Peña
Nina

Antonia San Juan
Agrado

Penélope Cruz
Rosa

Rosa María Sardà
Rosa's Mother

Fernando Fernán Gómez
Rosa's Father

Fernando Guillén
Actor "Doctor"

Toni Cantó
Lola

Eloy Azorín
Esteban
All About My Mother is a comedy, drama film released in 1999 exploring themes of drug abuse, barcelona, spain, transvestism, transplantation, madrid, spain, transsexuality. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar, it stars Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña. Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
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