One of Spain's recent box office hits, The Other Side of the Bed was nominated for six Goya Awards in 2002, including Best Picture and Best Director, and also received awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Audience Favorite at the Festival de Malaga Cine Español.

Based on a screenplay by David Serrano, he Other Side of the Bed was directed by Emilio Martinez-Lazaro and produced by Tomás Cimadevilla and José Sáinz De Vicuña.

"The other side of the bed" is a raucous and sexy romantic comedy with a musical twist. The film tells the story of two couples whose search for love leads to lies and heartache - and lots of song and dance.

Javier (Ernesto Alterio) lives with Sonia (Paz Vega) and yet is having an affair with Paula (Natalia Verbeke) who has just broken up with Pedro (Guillermo Toledo), Javier's best friend.

As the four characters, along with a collection of their friends and co-workers, switch back and forth between their lovers, their lies only escalate.

Combining classic farce with sharp writing and top-flight performances, The Other Side of the Bed is a fun, sexy romp through modern relationships and the confusing intersection of love and desire.

With its antic plot and characters who break into song in middle of Madrid’s health clubs, bars and museums, The Other Side of the Bed is entertainment that refuses to take itself too seriously. At the same time, the film’s lively, intelligent humor locates the ordinary aspects of the dilemmas confronted by story’s friends and lovers.

What happens when friends are attracted to one another’s lovers, and vice versa? After all, affection and appreciation underlie both types of relationships.

Nobody quite makes it to the other side of the bed in the new Spanish musical comedy "The Other Side of the Bed," but that's not for lack of talking about it.

Although they don't come right out and say so, I gather that this side of the bed is for heterosexuals, and that side is for homosexuals, and the movie is about a lot of people who are cheating on their partners while speculating that a lot of other people are gay.

I'll give you just a sample. As the film opens, Pedro (Guillermo Toledo) is told by his girlfriend Paula (Natalia Verbeke) that she is in love with another, and must end their relationship.

Meanwhile, we discover that Paula is having a secret affair with Pedro's best friend, Javier (Ernesto Alterio), who has promised to break up with his girlfriend, Sonia (Paz Vega), but lacks the nerve, possibly because he still loves her.

When the men and two other friends get together to discuss their romantic miseries, one of them of course is keeping a big secret - and another, a macho taxi driver named Rafa (Alberto San Juan), delivers his women-hating theories and speculates that they are all lesbians at heart.

There is a lesbian in the movie, Lucia (Nathalie Poza), and she has the thankless task of standing there while other characters reveal their astonishing ignorance of lesbianism, sexuality and indeed the nature of life on the planet which we occupy.

For people who do nothing about it, characters spend an inordinate amount of time discussing homosexuality; in this case, where there's smoke, there's smoke.

Their knowledge extends to the theory that "we are all bisexual," and we keep expecting the theory to be tested in the laboratory on the other side of the bed, but this is a discussion, like what you would do if you won the lottery, that remains hypothetical and can be extended indefinitely.

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