Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Synopsis

A pregnant television voiceover actress in Madrid is abruptly abandoned by her married lover via answering machine, spending an increasingly chaotic twenty-four hours dealing with her suicidal model best friend, a mambo-obsessed taxi driver, Shiite terrorists, and gazpacho spiked with sleeping pills. Pedro Almodóvar's dazzling, Oscar-nominated candy-colored screwball triumph starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas.