How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
| How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer | |
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 America Ferrera as Blanca Garcia |
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| Directed by | Georgina Riedel |
| Starring | America Ferrera Elizabeth Peña Lucy Gallardo |
| Distributed by | Maya Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
| Running time | 128 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Spanish |
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer is a 2005 American movie starring America Ferrera. The film is rated R by the MPAA for "sexual content and some language." It was not released on DVD until May 16, 2008.
The plot concerns three generations of Garcia women in a sleepy Arizona town who experience a sexual awakening during the course of a summer. America Ferrera is the teenage Blanca Garcia, Elizabeth Peña is Blanca's mother and Lucy Gallardo is her grandmother.
At the beginning of the film, Doña Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the matriarch of the family, decides to buy a car but doesn't know how to drive. A man named Don Pedro offers to teach her, and the relationship gradually turns from platonic to romantic. Meanwhile, Doña Genoveva's daughter, Lolita, is torn between her co-worker at the butcher shop where she works and Victor, a married man who frequently makes passes at women around town. Seventeen-year-old Blanca falls for the new guy in town and learns about the joy and pain an intimate relationship can bring.
Throughout the story, the women struggle to sort out their sexual feelings while trying not to further damage their sometimes-strained family relationship. Most of the dialogue is in English, with occasional humorous digressions of old men sitting around talking in Spanish about their past experiences with cars and women.
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