Broken Embraces
2009 • Drama • Rated R • 127 Minutes
| In Theaters | November 20, 2009 | |||
| On 4K UHD | Not Available | |||
| On Blu-ray | Not Available | |||
| On DVD | March 16, 2010 | |||
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Director
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A luminous Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in Academy Award® -winning filmmaker (2003, Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Talk to Her) Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena (Cruz) consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto (José Luis Gómez), a very wealthy, much-older man who pays for her father's hospitalization and provides her a lavish lifestyle. But Lena's dream is to act and soon she falls for the director of her first film - a project bankrolled by her husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery of the affair, Ernesto stops at nothing to ruin Lena's happiness.
Rated R for sexual content, language and some drug material.
Box office gross: $4.8 million. View box office history.
Presented in Spanish.
Released by Sony Pictures Classics. See more credits.
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