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All About My Mother 1999

type: Movie

language: Catalan

duration: 101 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: feminist

director: Pedro Almodóvar

Score: 7 / 10

All About My Mother is a 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Rosa Maria Sardà.

Plot

Manuela is an Argentine nurse who supervises donor organ transplants at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. She is also a single mother to Esteban, a teenager who aspires to become a writer.

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author	Pedro Almodóvar
award	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film César Award for Best Foreign Film European Film Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Film European Film Award - People's Choice Award for Best Director
contentLocation	Barcelona Madrid
director	Pedro Almodóvar
editor	José Salcedo
events	coming to terms with the past death of one's child ex motherhood self-actualization transsexualism
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	a coruña a streetcar named desire aid alzheimer\'s alzheimer\'s disease argentine baby baby boy blanche dubois dressing room drug abuse drug addiction giving birth hiv hiv/aids hiv positive kill live at married old friend organ transplant organ transplantation organ transplants personal assistant saying goodbye sex worker single mother stage show struggle trans woman transgender woman understudy want
musicBy	Alberto Iglesias
nomination	Academy Award for Best International Feature Film European Film Award for Best Actress European Film Award for Best Film Goya Award for Best Film
producer	Agustín Almodóvar
publisher	Pathé Warner Sogefilms
recordedAt	Barcelona Madrid
theme	feminist independent lgbt-related