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Celebrate Mother’s Day with the master of maternal melodrama, Pedro Almodóvar, and one of his finest, funniest, and most deeply felt tributes to motherhood, 2006’s Volver. The film explores the boundless lengths to which a mother—in this case, an extraordinarily committed Penélope Cruz—will go to protect a child, as well as the ways that intergenerational trauma can linger and complicate the trails and tribulations of maternity, as Cruz reconnects with her own mother (the great Carmen Maura). Since all of that sacrifice can make a gal thirsty, bring mom to the movies and get a ticket for a free mimosa on the house at our upstairs Commissary.