Touching, charming and very engagingly played, it offers perceptive insights into LA Latino culture as well as solid, slightly old-fashioned entertainment.
Quinceañera
Life's no walk in the park
2006 · 1h 30m · R
Drama
Directed by
Richard Glatzer
,
Wash Westmoreland
Overview
As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The setting and the people in it make Quinceanera a party worth an RSVP.
It feels awkward, both in the pat screenplay and the uneven direction.
You realize that, while pretending to break ground, Quinceanera is ultimately stuck in familiar Hollywood formulas.
[Has]courage to look realistically, instead of idealistically, at some dubious civic practices; and second, honesty about the painful feelings of kids coupled with their desperate need for love and guidance and their ultimate desire to do the right thing.
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