Esa Maldita Costilla is a 1999 comedy film starring some of the most famous actresses of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 and Spain: Susana Giménez

Susana Giménez

Susana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....

, Betiana Blum

Betiana Blum

Betiana Blum is an Argentine actress.-Filmography:*Esperando la carroza 2: se acabó la fiesta ...Nora*Tocar el cielo ...Gloria*Ciudad en celo ...Marta...

, Rossy de Palma

Rossy de Palma

Rossy de Palma, is a Spanish actress. Described by many as a Picasso come-to-life, Rossy de Palma broke the rules of beauty in 1988 when she starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and became a model and muse for designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler, and...

 and Loles León

Loles León

María Dolores León Rodríguez is a Spanish actress.She went to Madrid to start a career as an actress. She met Pedro Almodóvar during La Movida Madrileña. He offered her the roles she played in Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios and ¡Átame!...

.

Plot

Lila (León) (an astrologer), Margarita (de Palma) (a literature teacher), Rosa (Blum) (an erotic-line telephonist) and Azucena (Giménez) (faithful wife recently divorced) -note that all of the women have names which are also the same ones of different type of flowers- live in the same apartment building. One night, they decide to go together to have fun in a show of male striptease

Striptease

A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner...

. Juan (Luis Brandoni

Luis Brandoni

Luis Brandoni is an Argentine film and television actor. Politically active in the centrist Radical Civic Union , he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993, where he served until, 2001...

), the taxi driver who brings them to the club, pays attention to the conversation of the women who from one to one counts each other their ideal of a man. Since then, Juan characterized as the ideal of the individual man of the women, is dedicated to conquer one to one under different personalities. The trap is soon discovered.
The four ladies will come to an agreement: to share her ideal man of reason to spend one week each with him.

Cast

• Susana Giménez...Azucena
• Luis Brandoni...Juan / Arnold / Salvatore / David / Guillermo
• Rossy de Palma...Margarita
• Loles León...Lila
• Bettiana Blum...Rosa
• Rodolfo Ranni...Carlos
• Fabián Gianola...Tito
• Guillermo Nimo...Himself
• Nicole Neumann...Stunning young lady
• Nahuel Mutti...Kissing boy
• Catarina Spinetta...Kissing girl
• Guillermo Francella...Taxi driver 2
• Gonzalo Urtizberea...Efraim
• Gabriel Correa...Waiter 2
• Gladys Florimonti...Sadomasochist telephonist
• Silvia Geijo...Luxurious telephonist
• Roly Serrano...Julio
• Pía Uribelarrea...Hot Line Boss
• Ernesto Arias...Man at the College
• Fabio Aste...Man at the Toilette
• Claudio Chiaffone...Waiter 3
• Graciela Cravino...Lady at the College
• Ágatha Fresco...School-girl telephonist
• José Luis Galiardo...Genesis voice
• Diego Gentile...Teenager watcher 1
• Mariano Gundín...Teenager watcher 2
• Victoria Manno...Lady at Restaurant 1
• Luis Mazzeo...Bomberman
• Conrado Morales...Boy stripper 1
• Jorge Noya...Policeman
• Miguel Ángel Paludi...Man at Restaurant 1
• Martín Crha...Boy stripper 2
• Carolina Vespa...Lady at Restaurant 2
• Francisco Washington...Waiter 4
• Damián Campaña...Magician Gauman

Trivia

• Guillermo Nimo, a famous and controversial football referee acts as himself.
• Guillermo Francella
  Guillermo Francella
  Guillermo Francella is an Argentine actor and comedian. Apart from being a television performer, he also has had a long theatrical and film career.-Life and work:...
  
   makes a cameo in the last scene of the movie.
• As told it before, every woman has a name of a flower, Lila (Lilium), Margarita (Margareth), Azucena (another kind of lilium) and Rosa (Rose).
• The film was made after the scandalous divorce of Argentine diva
  Diva
  A diva is a celebrated female singer. The term is used to describe a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and, by extension, in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of diva is closely related to that of "prima donna"....
  
  Susana Giménez. Rumours says that she made the film to describe in the script what really happened.