How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
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''How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer'' is a 2005 American
comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
starring
America Ferrera America Georgina Ferrera (; born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents, Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing in several stage productions at her school. She made her featur ...
. It was not released on DVD until May 16, 2008. The film won the Silver George for the Best Film of the Perspective competition at the
27th Moscow International Film Festival The 27th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 17 to 26 July 2005. The Golden George was awarded to the Russian film ''Dreaming of Space'' directed by Alexei Uchitel. Jury * Valentin Chernykh (Russia – Head of the Jury) * Nicola Pi ...
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The plot concerns three generations of Garcia women in a sleepy Arizona town who experience a sexual awakening during the course of a summer: teenaged Blanca Garcia; her mother, Lolita; and her grandmother, Doña. Doña, the matriarch of the family, decides to buy a car but doesn't know how to drive. Her gardener, a man named Don Pedro offers to teach her, and the relationship gradually turns from platonic to romantic. Meanwhile, Doña'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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* 2005 films 2005 comedy films American comedy films Films about Mexican Americans 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{2000s-comedy-film-stub