WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (MUJERES AL BORDE DE UN ATTAQUE DE NERVIOS) Tributes

The wildly hysterical international box office hit, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN introduces us to Pepa (Carmen Maura) who has just been jilted by an answering machine. The love of her life, Ivan (Fernando Guillen), has ended their relationship and she is heartbroken, but misery does love company. Her girlfriend, Candela, has fallen in love with a terrorist. Ivan’s son wants to rent the love nest Pepa shared with Ivan. Ivan’s crazed wife arrives with loaded guns, and Ivan himself is about to fly off to Stockholm with his new girlfriend-on a plane that Candela’s boyfriend plans to hijack. It’s enough to drive any woman to a nervous breakdown-or beyond-in this madcap farce from acclaimed director Pedro Almodovar: