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* BuxomIsBetter: When Nina suggests that Agrado could get rid of her fake tits, Agrado responds that if she did she wouldn't get work. Apparently the men that patronize transgender hookers demand big racks.
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* BuxomIsBetter: BuxomBeautyStandard: When Nina suggests that Agrado could get rid of her fake tits, Agrado responds that if she did she wouldn't get work. Apparently the men that patronize transgender hookers demand big racks.
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''All About My Mother'' is a 1999 film from UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Cecilia Roth and Creator/PenelopeCruz.
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''All About My Mother'' is a 1999 film from UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Cecilia Roth and Creator/PenelopeCruz.
Creator/PenelopeCruz. In North America it was released by Creator/SonyPicturesClassics, while in Spain it was distributed by Creator/WarnerBros under Warner Sogefilms.
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* IllGirl: Rosa’s pregnancy combined with her preexisting hypertension put her in increasingly ill health, which doesn’t improve after she learns she has contracted HIV from Lola.
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''All About My Mother'' is a 1999 film from UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Cecelia Roth and Creator/PenelopeCruz.
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''All About My Mother'' is a 1999 film from UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Cecelia Cecilia Roth and Creator/PenelopeCruz.
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* BreakTheCutie: Rosa learns that she is HIV possitive while being pregnant.
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* BreakTheCutie: Rosa learns that she is HIV possitive positive while being pregnant.
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* TheIngenue: Rosa is an innocent and idealistic social worker who hands out condoms to street hookers, volunteers to help people in El Salvador (at the expense of her own life) and wanted to give Manuela a full time job at her parents' house even though she barely knew her and mistook her for a prostitute.
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* MistakenForProstitute: Rosa thinks Manuela is a prostitute when she first met her, just like Agrado. Not that she minds or would have anything against it though.
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* BreakTheCutie: Rosa learns that she is HIV possitive while being pregnant.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Manuela. She is a very loyal friend to almost everybody around her, as well as a nurturing mother figure to Rosa when she needs it the most. She also happens to have blond hair.
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* TimeSkip: Several. The last one is accompanied by an overhead shot showing Manuela's train leaving Barcelona. Then, after "Two years later" appears onscreen, the same train is shown going in the opposite direction, as she returns.
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* TimeSkip: Several. The last one is accompanied by an overhead shot showing Manuela's train leaving Barcelona. Then, after "Two years later" appears onscreen, the same train is shown going in the opposite direction, as she returns.returns.
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* IllGirl: Rosa’s pregnancy combined with her preexisting hypertension put her in increasingly ill health, which doesn’t improve after she learns she has contracted HIV from Lola.
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* {{Streetwalker}}: Agrado, who is trying and failing to fight off an aggressive john when Manuela rescues her by whacking the john on the head with a rock.
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* {{Streetwalker}}: Agrado, who is trying and failing to fight off an aggressive john when Manuela rescues her by whacking the john on the head with a rock.rock.
* TimeSkip: Several. The last one is accompanied by an overhead shot showing Manuela's train leaving Barcelona. Then, after "Two years later" appears onscreen, the same train is shown going in the opposite direction, as she returns.
* TimeSkip: Several. The last one is accompanied by an overhead shot showing Manuela's train leaving Barcelona. Then, after "Two years later" appears onscreen, the same train is shown going in the opposite direction, as she returns.
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* DeathByChildbirth: Rosa dies of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placenta_praevia Placenta praevia]], leaving Manuela to adopt little Esteban.
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* {{Melodrama}}: Death by getting hit by a car, DeathByChildbirth, death by AIDS, drug addiction, lots of crying...
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* DeadGuyJunior: Rosa names her baby Esteban as a tribute to the baby's deceased half-brother, Manuela's son.
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* BuxomIsBetter: When Nina suggests that Agrado could get rid of her fake tits, Agrado responds that if she did she wouldn't get work. Apparently the men that patronize transgender hookers demand big racks.
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* AddledAddict: Nina's heroin habit is so bad that she has to shoot up ''during'' performances of the play.
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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Agrado is the nicest transgender prostitute you'll ever meet, good-hearted, kind and generous to her friends.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: "Have it. What do you expect?" So says Rosa when Manuela asks what Rosa is going to do about her pregnancy.
* MorningSickness: Manuela and Rosa are out and about when Rosa, who complained that she wasn't feeling well, vomits. In her next scene she reveals that she's pregnant.
* MorningSickness: Manuela and Rosa are out and about when Rosa, who complained that she wasn't feeling well, vomits. In her next scene she reveals that she's pregnant.
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''All About My Mother'' is a 1999 film from UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} by Creator/PedroAlmodovar, starring Cecelia Roth and Creator/PenelopeCruz.
Manuela (Roth) is a middle-aged nurse who works at a hospital in Madrid, and is in charge of the hospital's organ donation program. She is a single mother to an only child, Esteban, who has dreams of being a writer. On his 17th birthday, Esteban is struck by a car and killed while trying to get the autograph of Huma Rojo, a prominent actress. Manuela, stricken with grief, leaves for her old hometown of Barcelona. She is searching for Lola, Esteban's father, who is now a transvestite prostitute. Among the people she meets in Barcelona are her old friend Agrado, a transsexual prostitute; Rosa (Cruz), a nun who happens to be pregnant and HIV positive; her son's idol Huma Rojo, and Huma's lover and fellow actress Nina.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: InUniverse. Esteban is irritated when ''Film/AllAboutEve'' comes on Spanish television with the Spanish title "Eve Unveiled".
* DownerBeginning: Esteban is hit by a car and killed 12 minutes into the movie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Esteban is nearly hit by a car as he dashes across the street to meet his mom; she tells him to be more careful. Shortly thereafter he dashes out into the street again and is struck and killed.
* POVCam: A shot from Esteban's POV as he's flipped into the air by a car before crashing to the ground.
* {{Streetwalker}}: Agrado, who is trying and failing to fight off an aggressive john when Manuela rescues her by whacking the john on the head with a rock.
Manuela (Roth) is a middle-aged nurse who works at a hospital in Madrid, and is in charge of the hospital's organ donation program. She is a single mother to an only child, Esteban, who has dreams of being a writer. On his 17th birthday, Esteban is struck by a car and killed while trying to get the autograph of Huma Rojo, a prominent actress. Manuela, stricken with grief, leaves for her old hometown of Barcelona. She is searching for Lola, Esteban's father, who is now a transvestite prostitute. Among the people she meets in Barcelona are her old friend Agrado, a transsexual prostitute; Rosa (Cruz), a nun who happens to be pregnant and HIV positive; her son's idol Huma Rojo, and Huma's lover and fellow actress Nina.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: InUniverse. Esteban is irritated when ''Film/AllAboutEve'' comes on Spanish television with the Spanish title "Eve Unveiled".
* DownerBeginning: Esteban is hit by a car and killed 12 minutes into the movie.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Esteban is nearly hit by a car as he dashes across the street to meet his mom; she tells him to be more careful. Shortly thereafter he dashes out into the street again and is struck and killed.
* POVCam: A shot from Esteban's POV as he's flipped into the air by a car before crashing to the ground.
* {{Streetwalker}}: Agrado, who is trying and failing to fight off an aggressive john when Manuela rescues her by whacking the john on the head with a rock.
