Esteban cumple 17 años. Para celebrarlo, Manuela (Cecilia Roth), su madre, lo lleva al teatro a ver la obra "Un Tranvía Llamado Deseo". Mientras esperan un autógrafo de la actriz que interpreta a Blanche Dubois, Huma Rojo (Marisa Paredes), Manuela confiesa emocionada a Esteban haber interpretado ese mismo papel hace 20 años, en compañía de su padre, de quien él no sabe nada. Como regalo de cumpleaños, Manuela promete contarle todo sobre él. Pero algo inesperado le impide hablar con Esteban. Desde ese día Manuela guarda un cuaderno de su hijo con apuntes de un relato titulado Todo Sobre mi Madre y se promete buscar a Lola, quien se llamara Esteban y aunque ahora luzca como mujer, es el padre de su hijo. Todo Sobre mi Madre muestra situaciones y personajes extremos que sin embargo poseen un realismo que provoca risas y llanto; es sin duda una película en la que descubriremos algo sobre nosotros mismos.

Release Date: 1999-08-16, Audio CD, Universal I.S.

Synopsis Internationally acclaimed writer/director Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) delivers his finest film yet, a poignant masterpiece of unconditional love, survival and redemption. Manuela (Cecilia Roth) is the perfect mother. A hard-working nurse, shes built a comfortable life for herself and her teenage son, an aspiring writer. But when tragedy strikes and her beloved only child is killed in a car accident, her world crumbles. The heartbroken woman learns her sons final wish was to know of his father-the man she abandoned when she was pregnant 18 years earlier. Returning to Barcelona in search of him, Manuela overcomes her grief and becomes caregiver to a colorful extended family: a pregnant nun (Penélope Cruz), a transvestite prostitute (Antonia San Juan), and two troubled actresses (Maria Paredes and Candela Peña). With riveting performances, unforgettable characters and creative plot twists, this touching screwball melodrama is "An absolute stunner. A funny, touching and vital film marks a career peak for Almodovar!" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).

Release Date: 1999-08-16, Audio CD, Universal I.S.

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he has a child. First she finds her friend, Agrado, also a transvestite; through him she meets Rosa, a young nun bound for El Salvador, and by happenstance, becomes the personal assistant of Huma Rojo, the actress her son admired. She helps Huma manage Nina, the co-star and Huma's lover, and she becomes Rosa's caretaker during a dicey pregnancy. With echoes of Lorca, 'All About Eve,' and 'Streetcar Named Desire,' the mothers (and fathers and actors) live out grief, love, and friendship. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, British Independent Film Awards, Butaca Awards, Camerimage Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Ceasar Awards, Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain, David Donatello Awards, European Film Awards, Golden Globes, Goya Awards, Oscar Academy Awards, San Sebastian International Film Festival, ...All About My Mother ( Todo sobre mi madre ) ( Tout sur ma mère )

United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, SYNOPSIS: This 5-DVD Collection contains 5 Almodovar's movies:Bad Education ( La Mala educación ):In the early 60s, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.Talk To Her ( Hable con ella ):Marco, a journalist grieving for a love affair that ended ten years' ago, falls in love with Lydia, a bullfighter also on the rebound. Benigno, a nurse, dedicates his life to his only patient, a young dancer in a coma as a result of an accident four years' before; he talks to her, reads to her, holds photographs in front of her closed eyes. When Lydia is brought comatose to the hospital where Benigno works, he and Marco become friendly, and the nurse encourages the journalist to talk to her and hope for a miracle. Marco is Sancho to Benigno's Quixote, and as Benigno's hopes for his patient become fantasies, Marco tries to inject reality. Does a miracle await?All About My Mother ( Todo sobre mi madre ):A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his 17th birthday as he runs to seek an actress's autograph. She goes to Barcelona to find the lad's father, a transvestite named...Pedro Almodovar 5-DVD Collection ( Bad Education / Talk To Her / All About My Mother / Live Flesh / Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! ) ( La Mala educación / Hable con ella / Todo sobre mi m