TY - BOOK AU - Pedro Almodóvar AU - San Juan, Antonia. AU - Candela Peña AU - Marisa Paredes AU - Penélope Cruz AU - Rosa Maria Sardà AU - Cecilia Roth TI - All About My Mother AV - DVD 002955 PY - 1999/// CY - Spain, France PB - El Deseo S.A. KW - Drama N1 - Young Esteban want to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his father, carefully concealed by the mother Manuela; Pedro Almodóvar N2 - 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 UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/ ER -