Jamon Jamon (1992)
"Jamón, jamón" (original title)

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, ... See full summary »

Director:

Bigas Luna

Writers:

Cuca Canals, Bigas Luna,

Stars:

Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego

6 wins & 10 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stefania Sandrelli	...	Propietaria fabrica ropa
Anna Galiena	...	Prostituta
Juan Diego	...	El padre
Penélope Cruz	...	Silvia
Javier Bardem	...	Raul
Jordi Mollà	...	El novio de Silvia (as Jordi Molla)
Tomás Martín	...	Amigo Raúl (as Tomás Penco)
Armando del Río	...	Amigo José Luis
Diana Sassen	...	Amiga Silvia
Chema Mazo	...	Padre de Silvia
Isabel de Castro Oros	...	Hermana Silvia
Nazaret Callao	...	Hermana Silvia
Marianne Hermitte	...	La chica del perro en el puticlub
Nadia Godoy	...	La que canta en el puticlub
María Reniu	...	Chica en puticlub

Storyline

Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

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Plot Keywords:

underwear | factory | bullfighter | hand in pants | pleasure | 

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Taglines:

Winner of the Silver Lion Award Venice Film Festival

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

February 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Tale of Ham and Passion

Filming Locations:

Fraga, Huesca, Aragón, Spain

Box Office

Gross:

$938,473 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lolafilms, Ovídeo TV S.A., Sogepaq

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Penélope Cruz was 16 years old when this movie was made.

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Crazy Credits

Stefania Sandrelli - la madre puta Ana Galiena - la madre puta Penélope Cruz - la hija de puta

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Connections

Featured in La fiesta (2003)

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Soundtracks

"LAS PERLAS DE CONCHITA"
By Mauro Endara
Performed by Los Melódicos
Edited by Max Box and Dial Discos, S.A.

User Reviews

Brilliantly funny but not to everyone's taste

I wouldn't recommend Jamon Jamon to everyone I know, because the humour and the plot are idiosyncratic, to say the least. I regarded this films as a massive, but not at all serious, send-up of machismo and how it interacts with greed and lust. Above all, it is meant to make you laugh, rather than portray some profound message about the human condition. For example, although I can't speak for the Director, I suspect that the naked bullfight scene was simply meant to be absurd and, hence, to make you laugh. Anyone who thinks it is pretentious has simply missed the point and is pretentious himself because he is reading things into the scene which are non-existent. Not everyone will find a scene like that funny but I personally was in stitches, as I was during the parrot scene, the ham fight scene and many other eminently unforgettable scenes. What I can't say in all honesty is that everybody else in the auditorium found it quite as funny as I did.