All About My Mother
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.
- Director
- Pedro Almodóvar
- Worldwide
- $68M
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Cast
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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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Box Office & Release
All About My Mother returned 13.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $5M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $68M
- Release date
- Apr 16, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- Catalan, Spanish
- Country
- Spain, France
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