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Release Date: November 19, 2004 (LA/NY)
On DVD: April 12, 2005
Genre: Drama, Crime
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Francisco Boira, Javier Cámara, Alberto Ferreiro, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Fele Martínez, Petra Martínez, Leonor Watling
AKA: Mala educación, La
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Official site: sonyclassics.com/badeducation
Running Time: 109 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated NC-17 for a scene of explicit sexual content.

Two kids, Ignacio and Enrique, discover love, cinema and fear in a religious school. Father Manolo, the school principal and their literature teacher, is witness to and part of these discoveries.

The three characters meet twice again, at the end of the 70s and in the 80s. The re-encounter will mark the life and death of some of them....

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"Bad Education" ("La Mala educacion") is the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar, the acclaimed director behind "Talk to Her" and "All About My Mother." This time, Almodóvar carefully pushes the audience to its limit of tolerance as he focuses on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, homosexuality and the lengths people would go to get what they want. Full movie review »

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