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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
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Writer:
Georgina Riedel (writer)
Tagline:
Love and sex. Some things just get better with age.
Plot:
Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer. | add synopsis
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2 wins
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(2 articles)
Ugly Betty Gets A Hubby
(From Cinema Blend. 11 November 2008, 7:35 AM, PST)
Sydney Film Festival (1 of 8)
(From ioncinema. 11 June 2005)
(From Cinema Blend. 11 November 2008, 7:35 AM, PST)
Sydney Film Festival (1 of 8)
(From ioncinema. 11 June 2005)
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Excellent directorial debut, that shows Life full of conflicts of catholic Mexican heritage women in American small town today.
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Elizabeth Peña | ... | Lolita | |
| America Ferrera | ... | Blanca | |
| Lucy Gallardo | ... | Dona Genoveva | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Eliana Alexander | ... | Nora | |
| David Barrera | ... | Sal's Uncle | |
| Steven Bauer | ... | Victor Reyes | |
| Alek Carrera | ... | Soap Opera Actor | |
| Ana Cervantes | ... | Doña Loda | |
| Jorge Cervera | ... | Don Pedro | |
| Patricia De Leon | ... | Soap Opera Actress | |
| Marina Dena-Santo | ... | Cuka | |
| Alyssa Diaz | ... | Rose | |
| Ricki Lopez | ... | Father Miguel | |
| Leo Minaya | ... | Sal | |
| Alberto Montero | ... | Freddie | |
| Alberto Montero | ... | Freddie | |
| Ruben Moreno | ... | Old Man | |
| Rick Najera | ... | Jose Luis | |
| Marina Dena Santo | ... | Cucka | |
| Jane Sevilla | ... | Carla | |
| Perla Walters | ... | Nena | |
| Victor Wolf | ... | Oswaldo | |
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Rated R for sexual content and some language.
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Argentina:128 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | USA:128 min
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2008-05-17)" (2008)
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An amazingly intriguing piece of 3 different generations of Mexican/ American women in small town America driven by their search for love and honesty. The young director shows in depth the oddity and boredom that come with the life given to her 3 amazingly performed lead characters. The most wonderful casting of real people faces lets you be in their world and experience their love/pain, while underlining this with beautiful artistic images that seem like modern paintings at times. The choice of 35mm anamorphic also emphasizes the emptiness and overwhelmingly loneliness felt for this desert town. The 3 beautiful, funny and different story lines leave you with loaded emotional questions about love and following your heard. This is a must see independent movie!