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Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Patricia Cardoso, based on the play of the same name by Josefina López, who co-authored the screenplay for the film with George LaVoo. The film stars America Ferrera (in her feature film debut) as protagonist Ana García.
Real Women Have Curves: Directed by Patricia Cardoso. With America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez. In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
- (8.3K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Patricia Cardoso
- 2002-11-08
Based on the play of the same name by Josefina López – who co-wrote the screenplay with George LaVoo – Real Women Have Curves stars America Ferrera as Ana García, a first generation Mexican-American girl trying to find her path and identity through conflicting views with her immigrant parents.
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
"Real Women Have Curves" is a humorous and warmhearted look at a Mexican-American teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations,...
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- Patricia Cardoso
- PG-13
- America Ferrera
Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life ... and have curves. In her feature film debut, America Ferrera stars as 18-year-old Ana, a first-generation Mexican-American from East L.A. who struggles between her ambition of attending college and her cultural traditions -- as personified by Ana's needy mother, who wants the girl to work at the
Oct 18, 2017 · At a time when most films set in East Los Angeles chronicled gang life, Real Women Have Curves instead struck a poetic chord of authenticity with its warm portrayal of a lived-in, culturally...
