Category: 16
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1997
Country: Spain
Runtime: 105
Rating: (0)
Languages: Spanish, English
Director: Manuel Lombardero
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

  • Si esta tarde no le digo que quiero acostarme con ella, me tiro por la escalera.


    • Writing by: Rafael Azcona – writer
    Manuel Lombardero – writer
    Stephen Vizinczey – novel "In Praise of Older Women"

    Produced by: Fernando de Garcillán – associate producer
    Andrés Vicente Gómez – producer
    Antonio Saura – associate producer

    Cast: Juan Diego Botto – Andrés
    Miguel Ángel García – Andrés (15 yrs) (as Miguel A. Garcia)
    Faye Dunaway – Condesa
    Carme Elias – Irene
    Joanna Pacula – Marta
    Rosana Pastor – Pilar
    Imanol Arias – Dávalos
    Florence Pernel – Bobi
    Ingrid Rubio – Julia
    Ángel de Andrés López – Víctor
    Ramón Barea – Peciña

    Music: José Manuel Pagán
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    Plot Outline: In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.
    Plot: In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.

    Movie Quotes:“>first lines]
    Adolf Hitler: Before us lies Germany, within us marches Germany, and after us comes Germany!


    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Thanks to … the people of Evershot.

    Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: Mr. Knightly's hairstyle and collar change during his proposal to Emma.

    Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • Mrs. Bates and Miss Bates, mother and daughter in the film, are played by real-life mother and daughter Phyllida Law and Sophie Thompson (who are also real-life mother and sister to Academy-Award-winning actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson).
    • Emma and Mr. Knightley's dance is called “Mr. Beveridge's Maggot” (to the tune of the same name). (A “maggot” is “a whimsical fancy.”) This same tune and dance were previously used in "Pride and Prejudice" (1995) for Elizabeth Bennet's dance with Mr. Darcy at the Netherfield Ball.
    • Ewan McGregor had not read the original novel prior to filming.