Carmen Maura,
Ángel de Andrés López,
Veronica Forque,
Gonzalo Suárez,
Chus Lampreave
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Filmmaker Pedro Almodvar, the Luis Buuel of the 1980s, cooks up another perversely funny descent into urban hell in What Have I Done to Deserve This? Carmen Maura plays a middle-class housewife hemmed... read more
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2003
Stats: 269 reviews
Hitler, a lizard, a prostitute, a telekinetic neighbor and a dead body in the kitchen.
I suppose it wouldn't be a Pedro Almodóvar film if it didn't make you say "WTF?" at least once.
Deliciously weird.
I see What Have I Done to Deserve This? as a slightly weaker version of Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Different story when it comes to the family situation but essentially the same film. The comedy is fast and furious as you'd expect, Murder, Lizards, prostitutes etc... read more
It's a mish mash of the typical Almodóvar plot lines and characters, and though the stew never comes as consistent as it should and many of the threads are left hanging up in the air at the end, it's still a worthy entry in his oeuvre.
I'm still trying to decide about this movie. I think I'm trying to make it have more of a point than it did. When I think about it just as a movie about a struggling family I enjoy it but for some reason I keep trying to figure out the meaning or the significance of it.
Not a bad movie by any means, just not very interesting. It's also one of the first Almodovar films where you can actually notice his mark.
QUE HE HECHO YO PARA MERECER ESTO! suffers from a few plot holes and sensitive subject matter treated incorrectly. On the other hand, the... read more
Personally, I find this to be Pedro Almodovar's funniest film and overall an excellent experience. The performances are all terrific, especially Carmen Maura and Veronica Forque, and the characters all stand out.
This is just a wonderful, disturbing, sad, weird and hilarious film. Good Almodovar fare.
Saw this film once and did not make a lasting impression...Maura is a dream, she enraptures the audience as well as Almodovar as he uses her abilities rather often but she sparkles here in this kind of a mess then in Law of Desire she illuminates...bravo Maura
Almodovar's fourth feature (but the first to be released in the US) may be one of his most realistic films, an offbeat, darkly humorous feminist comedy with a great performance by Carmen Maura. Full Review
It's all a lot like early period John Waters -- only better acted and set in Madrid. Full Review
A somewhat harsh critique of a Spanish culture that dooms women to indentured servitude. Full Review
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