Bad Education

2004 105 min Drama, Crime

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

budget $5,000,000 earnings $40,266,982 return 8.1x

director Pedro Almodóvar

writer Pedro Almodóvar