Jamon Jamon details

Jamon Jamon
Format: 18 DVD
Starring: Jordi Molla, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena
Director: Bigas Luna
Genres: Comedy, Drama, World Cinema - Spanish
Studio: PALISADES TARTAN
Collections: En Espaņol, Spanish Speaking Films, Super Cool Films
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Jamon Jamon
18 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Rental release: 27 Dec 2000
Main languages: Spanish
Subtitles: English
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  • The taste of ham...

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By Ilias from West Midlands , 04 Feb 2004

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    The movie characters have lives more tangled than in soap operas. The plot is horrendously implausible; the cinematography poor and the sex gratuitous. And yet this is a fun film. Sylvia is pregnant with the child of the rich boy Jean Luis, who is also sleeping with her mother Carmen who owns the local bordello. Carmen, it is said, has been with Luis’s father sometime in the past. Luis’s father finds Sylvia agreeable, very agreeable. His mother Conchita, however, does not share the enthusiasm of the male members of her family for Sylvia and her mom. So she hires Raul, who models underwear (the Luis’s family’s business) to seduce Sylvia. He succeeds in seducing not just Sylvia but Conchita as well. So the whole movie romps along with everyone screwing everyone else, literally & figuratively. And yes, Jamon Jamon, means ‘Ham, Ham’ and Sylvia’s breasts are supposed to taste like ham.

    Howz that....
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  • Bad bad bad

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By a customer , 04 Jun 2013
    The movie was bad bad bad..I watched the first 30mins and I had to give up. It was worst that a Mexican Telenovela. The quality of the picture was bad, the theme was bad, even the acting was poor!!! Just rent it if you want to see a young Penelope Cruz in her bra
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  • Very...weird film!

    Rated - 2.0 stars  
    By Alee86 (6 reviews) , 11 Mar 2013

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    I found the whole film a bit too strange and highly focused on sex. I did not get much from it and when it finished, felt very disappointed.
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  • Tortilla anyone?

    Rated - 3.5 stars  
    By SilentTalkie (13 reviews) , 03 Mar 2013
    Made in the style of a Greek Tragedy gone wrong, the story is not so much of a love triangle, but more of a hexagon with Oedipal overtones. The film is completely and hilariously over-the-top as any good Spanish movie should be; very enjoyable with a great deal of ham-related incidents throughout. Even the end cast list is rather humourous with they two mothers being billed as 'la puta madre' and 'la madre puta' :-)
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  • Meaty melodrama

    Rated - 4.0 stars  
    By a customer , 28 Jan 2013
    Jamon Jamon is funny, thoughtful, sexy and never boring. Javier Bardem is absosutely beautiful in this. If you foriegn dramas/bollywood you will like this.
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  • (under) Crackers

    Rated - 2.5 stars  
    By thom-mck (15 reviews) from Wellingborough , 06 Sep 2012
    Guaca!

    A crazy spanish sopa opera that I couldn't figure if it was trying to be a satire, a comedy or serious. I can't say I'd recommend it but it was quite enjoyable to see something so bonkers
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