Pepi, Luci, Bom And Other Girls On The Heap

Pedro Almodovar ingeniously makes the bizarre seem normal in PEPI, LUCI, BOM AND OTHER GIRLS ON THE HEAP, his subversive second feature.

A fascistic cop (Felix Rotaeta) busts into Pepi's (Carmen Maura) kitschy flat to hassle her over marijuana plants she grows in her window. She offers him sexual favors beneath a lifesize Wonder Woman poster--anything but the stealing of her virginity which she is saving to sell for a good price. He takes it anyway and Pepi plots her revenge. She enlists a streetwise teenage friend Bom (Olvido "Alaska" Gara), the band leader of "Bomitoni," and her musicians to rough up the cop. Pepi is delighted when they bump into him on a dese...