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Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).

At nearly three hours long, Yang's final film is a novelistic portrait of the Jians, a comfortable middle-class family, presumably like many others, whose members can be categorized neither as happy nor unhappy.

Mastroianni plays a film director who's just had a huge hit but is struggling to find an idea for his next project. Between fits and starts, he goes back through his life and confronts all his demons. And what a cavalcade of demons!

Campy film is fun viewing and shines light on lipstick lesbians who are willing to put their pom-poms where their mouths are.

Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockers

All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.