Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)

6.4PG-13105 minDirector: Rodrigo García Márquez

2000 American romantic drama film

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her is a 2000 American romantic drama film written and directed by Rodrigo García and starring an ensemble cast. The film consists of five stories, or vignettes, all centering on women and loosely tied together to examine themes of loneliness, dissatisfaction, longing, and/or desire.

The film, García's directing debut, was shown at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and won the Un Certain Regard Award. Though the film was originally intended as a theatrical release, its distributor MGM sold the film to Showtime, where it premiered on March 11, 2001.

Holly Hunter was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress for her performance.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) — Five loosely-intertwined stories of the emotional issues facing individual middle-aged Angelenas are presented. In "This Is Dr. Keener", physician Elaine Keener is spending the day taking care of her invalid mother at home on the nurse's day off. Elaine, a scientist, seeks confir
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