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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genres: Farce, Comedy of Errors, Ensemble Film, Comedy
Box Office: / $7,179,298
Released Date: November 11, 1988 (USA)
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Summary:
Though the kinky characters and aberrant social behavior common to the works of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are very evident in his Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, the film is at heart a door-slamming farce in the grand tradition. The tiny apartment of pregnant actress Carmen Maura is the "Grand Central Station" setpiece for this dizzying tale. Distraught over he... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Carmen Maura - (Pepa)
Antonio Banderas - (Carlos)
Fernando Guillén - (Ivan)
Julieta Serrano - (Lucia)
Maria Barranco - (Candela)
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Review:
Pedro_Almodóvar at his outrageous best, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is the most delightful of farces: charming and kinetic, it envelops a message of strange lucidity in a package of vibrant absurdity. Everything in the film's parallel universe abides by its own bizarre but oddly rational logic, from the premise that a forgotten ... Continue >>

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