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Rated: Unrated; Genres: Comedy, Foreign Language; With: Javier Bardem and Stefania Sandrelli

This sexy, good-natured Spanish farce has plenty to recommend it, including a nude bullfight. When a rich mother (Stefania Sandrelli) hires a hunk (Javier Bardem) to break up her son's engagement to the daughter of the town whore, the mother's best-laid plans, so to speak, go goofily awry. But what Jamon Jamon needs is the goosing hand of a young Pedro Almodovar to move it into the giddy sphere it aims for yet never reaches. B-


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Posted Jul 22, 1994
 

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