Release Date | 23 October 1991 |
US Box Office | $2,000,000 USD |
Tagline | a mother, a daughter, a lover. relationships can be murder. |
Genre | Drama Comedy Romance |
High Heels (Spanish: Tacones lejanos) is a 1991 melodrama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes and Miguel Bosé. The plot follows the fractured relationship between a self-involved mother, a famous torch singer, and her grown daughter she had abandoned as a child. The daughter, who works as a television newscaster, has married her mother's ex-lover and has befriended a female impersonator. A murder further complicates this web of relationships.