How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 6
At turns comical and sincere, Garcia Girls is an intelligent and intimate portrait of three women finding love at different ages.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 3
At turns comical and sincere, Garcia Girls is an intelligent and intimate portrait of three women finding love at different ages.
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Georgina Garcia Riedel's comedy How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer stars Lucy Gallardo, Elizabeth Peña, and America Ferrara as three generations in a family. Teenager Blanca (Ferrara) detests the boys in her small town and takes on a boyfriend from another town in the hopes that he might be different. Her mother, Rosa (Peña), is so sexually frustrated that she begins to put the moves on her best friend's husband, a man who has had an ongoing problem with sexual fidelity. Rosa's mother, Dona
Cast
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America Ferrera
Blanca -
Elizabeth Peña
Lolita -
Lucy Gallardo
Dona Geñoveva, Dona Ge... -
Eliana Alexander
Nora -
Steven Bauer
Victor Reyes -
Jorge Cervera Jr.
Don Pedro -
Ana Cervantes
Doña Loda, Doña Loda, ... -
David Barrera
Sal's Uncle -
Alek Carrera
Soap Opera Actor -
Patricia De Leon
Soap Opera Actress -
Marina Dena-Santo
Cuka -
Alyssa Diaz
Rose -
Ricky Lopez
Father Miguel -
Alberto Montero
Freddie -
Ruben Moreno
Old Man -
Jane Sevilla
Carla -
Victor Wolf
Oswaldo -
Rick Najera
Jose Luis -
Leo Minaya
Sal Juarez
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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (8) | DVD (3)
While there are rewards to sticking with this tempest-in-teapot saga of sexual awakening across three family generations of Mexican-American women, its pacing is leisurely to the brink of stasis.
Top CriticAnother victory for a first-time, full-length feature filmmaker with a curious, inventive eye and an unsparing point of view.
Riedel reveals herself to be a novice filmmaker, especially in the pacing of most scenes.
Like Blanca and her friends, walking languidly down the street, then spontaneousy grabbing a shopping cart for a ride, Reidel plays with the rhythm of her enjoyably unhurried tale.
Leisurely paced but lovely and touching.
The film is sensitively told and appealingly bittersweet, though the story at times meanders and loses its way.
Tedious drama wastes its promise despite strong acting.
Stylistically, the film takes risks before veering into an odd sort of studied artiness.
A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women north of the border, the movie is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity, warmth, sadness and humor.
Pena has a great role and delivers her best performance since Lone Star in 1996.
A lovingly crafted portrait of a kind of life not often seen on the big screen.
Although the story is overly familiar, Riedel's evocation of small-town life rings true.
This is a movie with wonderful, strong performances from three very talented women.
It's a smart little film, although there are some odd cinematographic moments --- curious, at best. And at two hours plus, the movie runs at least 20 minutes too long.
If your taste is for movies off the beaten path, run out and see this one before it disappears.
A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women north of the border, the movie is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity, warmth, sadness and humor.
With the Garcia Girls, Riedel will take the right audiences someplace this summer.
Riedel's film is a breakthrough achievement and a hopeful sign of more to come.
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