

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown(1988)
A comedy about someone you know.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

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