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6.3/10   752 votes
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Director:
Susan Seidelman
Writers:
James Myhre (writer)
Barbara Wilson (novel)
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Release Date:
20 July 2001 (South Africa) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Mystery more
Plot:
Alone in a foreign city, Cassandra must solve a family's darkest, deepest secrets before she can confront her own past. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
A REAL GEM OF A MOVIE more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Judy Davis ... Cassandra Reilly

Marcia Gay Harden ... Frankie Stevens
Lili Taylor ... Ben

Juliette Lewis ... April

Courtney Jines ... Delilah
María Barranco ... Carmen
Christopher Bowen ... Hamilton
Pep Molina ... Paco
Víctor Álvaro ... Juan
Steve Itkin ... Harry (voice)
Sergi Ruiz ... Carlos
Glòria Casas ... Elisa
Aitor Extravizz ... Esteban
Glòria Roig ... Carmen's Mother
Saskia Lange ... Maria
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Tardes de Gaudí (Spain)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and sexual content.
Runtime:
97 min | Argentina:93 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Country:
Spain
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Filming Locations:
Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Hamilton: [about his date] You know I never would have guessed it.
Cassandra Reilly: Guessed what?
Hamilton: That she was a transexual
[Cassandra chokes on her drink]
Hamilton: Not that I'm judgemental mind you, people are all different - I'm bisexual for instance.
[She chokes again]
Hamilton: Oh I'm sorry, being Irish you must not be used to talking about bisexuals, let alone transvestities.
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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
A REAL GEM OF A MOVIE, 5 November 2002
7/10
Author: flimbuff (flimbuff@aol.com) from PHILADELPHIA, PA

Wonderfully, funny satire of gender bending with only a few slow parts when the screenwriter forgets we don't really need any serious moralizing in this kind of film.

Our plot has Judy Davis, as Cassandra, a sort of almost middle aged, expatriot writer living in Spain trying to finish her novel. She is hired by Frankie, a very sexy deserted wife, to track down her missing daughter because of her bilingual skills.

Things aren't exactly what they seem and we find that Frankie is actually the transsexual father of the missing child who is now living with her natural mother Ben, a lesbian, who is engaged in a 'menage a trois' with her bisexual lover Hamilton and 'their lover' April, wonderfully played by Juliette Lewis.

The confusion makes for some very funny lines that are so well played that the situation seems almost natural. The screenwriter goes somewhat adrift later on with some totally unnecessary reflections by Cassandra, who apparently has sexual identity problems of her own, but the film as a whole is just wonderfully refreshing when compared to most of today's "statement" films. Good soundtrack too.

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