
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.
Leave your thoughts about Jamon Jamon.
| Future Movies UKMatt McAllisterIt's provocative and hugely entertaining, a highpoint in the blossoming period of 1990s Spanish cinema. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA movie that combines lurid melodrama with vast improbabilities, sexy soap opera with heartfelt romance, and cheerful satire with heedless raunch. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyA coarse muddle of melodrama, romance and cautionary tale, the film is chiefly a tribute to throbbing Latin manhood, as cretinous and sophomoric as it is pretentiously surreal. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewThe sex scenes are so bizarre as to be parodic and it all looks terribly ugly. But wonderful vignettes of rural life, and a terrific performance from Pablito the piglet. Ham indeed. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAlthough possessing a biting wit and excellent sense of the offbeat, too much of Jamon, Jamon follows obvious paths. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksIt wants to be sexy, funny and incisive, but instead it is more overheated and silly. |
| User ReviewLucija Awhat I want the most is to guy like Javier comes to me in a disco and kiss me the way Javier did to Penelope...that was a real movie kiss |
| User ReviewAnne-Lise BA sexy, wonderfully hillarious, and slightly macabre narration. Bigas Luna captures a melting pot of characters in the most filmic and imaginative way. And Javier Bardem is ultra beefy. Most recommendable, even if it is just to laugh for the Bardem's character's attempt at impressing a girl with a matadoresque 'Olé'...priceless. |
| User ReviewNatalya NI love the way Javier act.... Full of love and lust... |
| User ReviewRafa? RLet's say sun, meat, corrida de toros, sex. Amalgamate of romance, drama and comedy beautifully orchestrated by young heroine tells naive, amusing story with such charming moments, delicious. (hint: Volver to see more) |