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Show Info

  • Director: Georgina Garcia Riedel
  • Producer: Georgina Garcia Riedel and Olga Arana
  • Starring: America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peña, Lucy Gallardo, Steven Bauer, Jorge Cervera Jr., Rick Najera and Leo Minaya
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Country: US
  • Running Time: 128 minutes
  • Rating: R
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Packaging: English
  • DVD UPC: 812034010012
  • DVD Catalog Number: MA1001
  • DVD SRP: 14.98
  • Number of discs: 1

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Synopsis

What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of longing, loneliness, and self-realization among three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as they grapple with romantic drought.

Reviews

"This is a beautifully rendered tale of three generations of women finding love... Elizibeth Peña turns in Oscar-Quality work."

If My Big Fat Greek Wedding can make $200m, I'm damn sure that this is a film that could do likewise, given half the chance.

"What's refreshing about "Garcia Girls" is that it presents a vivid slice of Mexican-American family life that anyone can connect with, regardless of ethnicity. And Reidel also deserves credit for depicting the possibility of finding love at all...

Riedel has spun... a subtly beautiful tapestry that's both entertaining and deeply affecting.The script is tight and believable; the arguments, slights and affection between the women feel absolutely genuine.

"A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women in an Arizona border town, How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity...

"Three strong women given a chance to come alive - what a concept!"

"The movie marks the sensational, feature-length directorial debut of Georgina Riedel, who exhibits an admirable confidence behind the camera in serving up such a daring depiction of lusty libertines whose most carnal of urges stand quite...