Main Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Javier Bardem, Maribel Verdú
Release Year: 1993
Country: ES
Run Time: 88 minutes
Plot
In this soft-porn drama, the oversexed hunk Benito Javier Bardem) spends a good portion of his military service in north Africa dreaming of sex, money and power - but mostly sex. He can barely keep himself in control, and is constantly grabbing his crotch. Somehow, when he is released from the service, he marries the daughter (Maria de Medeiros) of a real moneybags, and he uses some of those resources to build a gigantic skyscraper in the form of a phallus. After a car crash leaves him partially paralyzed and very despondent, his ill-used wife kicks him out and he moves to Miami, where he picks up a woman who (in a reversal of roles) loves 'em and leaves 'em. For some reason, this circumstance cuts our previously almost irrepressibly priapic hero to the heart, and he sobbingly realizes the extent of his losses. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Alessandro Gassman - Melilla's Friend; Albert Vidal - Father-in-Law; Benicio Del Toro - Bon, the friend from Miami; Maria de Medeiros - Marta; Maria Martin - The Producer Wife; Alicia Moro - Gil's Girl; Francisco Casares - The Producer; Ángel de Andrés Lopez - Cif with the Chickpeas; Angel de Andres; Raquel Bianca; Elisa Tovati; DD Productions; Francesco Dominedo; Enric Cusi; Lopez Alicia
Credit
Manuel Lombardero - Associate Producer, Aurelio De Laurentiis - Co-producer, Xavier Gélin - Co-producer, Stephane Marsil - Co-producer, Eusebio Graciani - First Assistant Director, J.J. Bigas Luna - Director, Carmen Frías - Editor, Andrés Vicente Gómez - Executive Producer, Nicola Piovani - Composer (Music Score), Jose Luis Alcaine - Cinematographer, Cuca Canals - Screenwriter
Javier Bardem, is Benito González, a flamboyant construction worker in Melilla. His dream was to build the tallest building ever in the region. His ambitions, extravagance and personal conflicts pummeled his dreams to the ground. Determined to satisfy his ambitions, Benito, waltzed through a life of excess, fetishes and deceptions that would ultimately send his life spiraling down.
