Eggnog

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Celia (Luz Valdenebro) is 44 years old, and she doesn't want to celebrate it, as doing so requires acknowledging she's reached that age without a partner or children. She has invited her friends to dinner at her house, but she has told them that it is not a birthday party. Instead, she says it's a Christmas dinner where she will offer them her famous eggnog for dessert, a recipe she learned when she lived in New York. The friends don't keep thir part of the deal and show up for the date with a strange birthday gift that will provoke a debate about motherhood and lead to an unexpected ending.

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Main credits

San Román, Javier (film director)
San Román, Javier (screenwriter)
San Román, Javier (film producer)
Collar, Luís (film producer)
Moreno, Jorge (film producer)
Hernández, Natalia (actor)
Merino, Susana (actor)
Trancón, Eva (actor)

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Cinematography, César Belandía; music, Miguel Dantart.

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Do we have to bring anything?

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Whatever you want except your husband

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I´m working on my eggnog, my special recipe

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Let’s meet before and go together

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Looking forward to it!!

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cheering

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What have you got there?

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Just a little present we brought for you

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We said no birthday presents. This is a Christmas dinner

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How can we not give you a present on your birthday?

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Not in the mood for presents

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You´re going to love this one

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But what is it? Bet it´s fattening

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So tempted to smoke

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Still?

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Only at moments like this.
I haven´t smoked since I gave birth to Kike

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Lasagna was excellent, Celia

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Let´s make a toast!

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No way!

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But you don´t know what I’m going to say…

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We´re at the best time of our lives.
Forties is the new thirties

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What a mood killer

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Why do you care about that? You´re doing so well

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I’m not the problem…
you are the ones who make me worry!

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We do? Come on!

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Age is just a number.
It’d be worse if you didn’t make it to your forties

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It´s not about getting there… it’s how you get there...

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and how do you think you´ve reached your forties?
You´re looking younger than any of us, bitch.

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I’d swap with you anytime

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Let´s open the present

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Can we not wait for the eggnog?

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It´s better now… I have something in my purse

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And what´s this about eggnog?

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You´re going to love it

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It´s a typical American recipe.
I learnt it when I lived in NYC

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New York… you´re so lucky

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She travelled the world working

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and making money… look at this house

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A lot of effort went into this

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That´s what I say. She´s a hard worker

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The present… before you guys start with philosophy

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Is this the present?

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And what´s that in the fridge?

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That comes later

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Come on! open it!

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What is this?

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Girls, it’s not too late to stop this

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It´s a picture of a boy. 20 years old

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What do you mean 20 years old? He´s a boy

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The picture is 20 years old, not the boy

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And you say this is a present? I don´t get it

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These are the instructions

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You´re kidding

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If you don´t like it we can give it back

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It cannot be given back

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How could you even consider this?

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Let me explain

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No need… it´s all in the instructions

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Welcome to 21st century motherhood

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A step forward in Women’s liberation

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What is this bullshit?

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Forget it

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You don´t have to use it.
We´re only giving you the possibility

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Exactly, a possibility they are denying you

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What possibility? And who is denying it to me?

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Circumstances, the system...

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That´s why they call it liberation
Because you decide, not them

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Who?

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You can be fit and beautiful at your forties
like never before, but women have one handicap

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Just one?

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The clock. Whatever you do or say… tic tac tic tac

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Stop it! You´re going too far, Irene.

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We have to talk openly about these things

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Why should she wait to find someone
to get pregnant if she can do it on her own

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We have gone through this before

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Hang on…

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I don´t understand what´s this all about

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And I think it´s very bad taste to bring me this picture of a boy

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to tell me that I should be a mother

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Then you´ll say nobody is forcing me

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It’s not any boy

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Who is he?

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What did you just said?

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Donor, hell, it´s the donor

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What did you put in my fridge?

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Sperm… his...

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Wait... This is a photo of the donor when he was 10…

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She is going to misunderstand it

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It´s simple. You have to inject this with a syringe…

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Well you have to defrost it first…

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Defrost it? In the microwave oven?

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Of course not! The sperm would die

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There´s a tutorial in Youtube explaining everything.
Let me send it to you

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There ... you got it

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Girls… this is quite something

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Frozen sperm… strange…

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Tinder was also strange at the beginning

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Exactly. Very soon this will be the most common thing…

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But you can always opt not to, if you don’t want it

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Let’s make that toast now. Here´s to friends!

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Ok, but much better with the eggnog, please

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Do you need any help?

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No thanks. I´m ok…

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You are my guests!

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I told you

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You could have helped a bit

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She has not understood it

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She has understood perfectly

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She has taken it too seriously

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So... This is not serious?

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What´s wrong with you?

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We have no right to get involved with her life this way.

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She can do whatever she wants

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Do you know what she wants…? not even she knows

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We are giving her the opportunity of a lifetime
and she doesn’t even say thank you

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Yeah, Big house, money and everything..
but what if she eventually regrets it

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She can also regret having children

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No way, because that is an instinct

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I don´t have that instinct

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How come… you are a mother…!

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So what?

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What´s up? did I say something wrong?

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Eggnog for my friends

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You´re not mad at us, are you?

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Why should I be?

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We did it for you

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I know… the biological clock and so on…

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We don’t want you to miss the opportunity

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How could I miss that thing you girls are always whining about!

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This tastes wonderful.
But there’s something different about it.

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I keep making changes to the recipe. New ingredients…

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I left mine in the kitchen.

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Alright now! A toast to friends!

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You have something here…

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ok?

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ok