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©2014
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
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Criterion collection #722
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"Después de pasarse media vida huyendo de los orfanatos, Ricky...un joven impulsivo y decidido, vive obsesionado con Marina...una actriz con quien se acostó una vez. Para conseguir su amor decide raptarla y encerrarla en su propia casa. Pero la ausencia de Marina pronto comienza a preocupar a su hermana Lola..."--www.filmaffinity.com
Originally released as a motion picture in 1990
A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs
Special features: New 2K digital restoration; New documentary on the making of the film; New interview with Almodóvar collaborator and Sony Pictures Classics copresident Michael Barker; Conversation from 2003 between Pedro Almodóvar and Banderas; Footage from the film's 1990 premiere party in Madrid; A 1990 piece about the film by Pedro Almodóvar and a conversation between critic Kent Jones and filmmaker Wes Anderson
Director of photography, José Luis Alcaine ; editor, José Salcedo ; composer, Ennio Morricone
Victoria Abril, Antonio Banderas, Loles León, Julieta Serrano, María Barranco, Rossy de Palma, Francisco Rabal
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD, anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround
Spanish dialogue; English subtitles