What Have I Done to Deserve This?

What Have I Done to Deserve This?

The Hell of Home.

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Produced by Kaktus Producciones Cinematográficas, Tesauro

1984102 min7.1 / 10

A darkly comic portrait of domestic misery and social dysfunction in Madrid, where a trapped housewife navigates a chaotic household filled with moral compromise and surreal desperation.

A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent sons, her headstrong mother-in-law, and her sex worker neighbor, among others.

Questions people ask

  • Is What Have I Done to Deserve This? sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of films.

  • Does What Have I Done to Deserve This? end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is What Have I Done to Deserve This? one of a kind? Yes. More singular than 86% of films.

  • Is What Have I Done to Deserve This? easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is What Have I Done to Deserve This? violent? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is What Have I Done to Deserve This? scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

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