Directed by:
Pedro AlmodóvarScreenplay:
Pedro AlmodóvarCinematography:
Ángel Luis FernándezCast:
Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Manuela Velasco, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Rossy de Palma, Pedro Almodóvar, Victoria Abril, Helga Liné (more)VOD (1)
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Antonio Banderas stars as Antonio Benítez, an obsessive fan of writer-director Pablo Quintero (Eusebio Poncela), a cocaine-snorting homosexual hedonist whose last boyfriend, Juan (Miguel Molina), has just moved out. Antonio and Pablo have a few passionate nights, but Antonio's obsessive love soon proves hard for the noncommittal Pablo to escape from. Meanwhile, Pablo's transsexual sister, Tina (Carmen Maura), has problems of her own, including a closet brimming with dark sexual skeletons and Ada (Manuela Velasco), her unofficially adopted daughter. Pablo writes a play for Tina to star in, but when Antonio stalks and murders Juan in a fit of jealousy, the police end up suspecting the character Tina performs in the play. Pablo winds up with amnesia after a car accident, and the troubles just get weirder from there. (official distributor synopsis)
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Eusebio Poncela
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Carmen Maura
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Antonio Banderas
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Manuela Velasco
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Fernando Guillén Cuervo
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Rossy de Palma
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Pedro Almodóvar
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Victoria Abril
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Helga Liné
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Agustín Almodóvar
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Marta Fernández Muro
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Miguel Molina
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Bibiana Fernández
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