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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783137780
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783137788
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 5836
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 08, 2002
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Should Ana leave home go to college and experience life? Or stay home get married and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision but for 18 year-old Ana every choice she makes this summer will change her life. At home she is bound to a mother who wants her to become someone she's not. But at school she's encouraged by a teacher who sees her potential and adores by a boyfriend who loves her for who she is. Right now Ana may be making clothes for less shapely women. But she's about to discover that real women take chances have flaws embrace life and above all have curves!Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359297229
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While My Big Fat Greek Wedding broke box-office records in 2002, Real Women Have Curves did a better job of keeping it real. Set in the vibrant environs of East Los Angeles, with a breakthrough performance by Latina newcomer America Ferrera, this comedic drama takes a familiar subject--a bright teenager struggling to define her identity--and turns it into an authentic celebration of feminine empowerment. Eighteen-year-old Ana (Ferrera) has scholarship potential, her first boyfriend, and a chubby figure that her similarly overweight mother (Lupe Ontiveros, perfectly cast) won't stop harping about. Mom insists that Ana work in her sister's dressmaking sweatshop, continuing a family tradition that can only break her spirit. How Ana defies this fate--and how director Patricia Cardoso captures the proud tenacity of several full-figured seamstresses--is what makes this film (adapted from a play by Josefina Lopez) so uniquely refreshing. Greek Wedding made more money, but Real Women--which is just as funny--makes a lot more sense. --Jeff Shannon
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**** 2002. Based on Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves, this film was directed by the Colombian director Patricia Cardoso. Two prizes in Sundance. Los Angeles. Ana has just finished high school. As though she's got the opportunity to go to a famous university, her family wants her to work in her sister's factory as a dressmaker. This dramatic comedy is a little jewel of sensibility. You won't find in it serious thoughts about integration in the U.S. but rather light commentaries about life as ... Read More
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After looking at some of the other Amazon reviews I'm wondering if I should try and come up with anything critical - and, although the themes and issues are broadly drawn, I just don't have the heart. This is a wonderful movie. I laughed, my heart was warmed, and I love the messages. I'd never heard of Real Women Have Curves until happening upon it at the library. I hope more women, especially women with any doubts about themselves, get to see it. And although the ending was a little disappointing ... Read More
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I first saw this movie several years back after renting it as a new release and really enjoying it. I was cleaning out my DVD collection last week and saw this and re-watched it. I enjoyed it as much as when it first came out.
America Ferrera plays Ana Garcia who is a smart student with a good chance for a college scholarship. She is burdened by a mother who believes she's fat and ugly and not smart enough to go to college, and is more needed at home. The story is based around her straight ... Read More
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It is America Ferrer at her finest. Anyone with old fashioned hispanic parents can relate to her. Highly Recommended!!!!
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I loved this movie....it is exceptionally well acted, witty, with a smart and biting script. Though it's technically a "chick flick", I think men would enjoy it also (although maybe not admit that). I saw it on television and liked it so much I wanted to see the unedited version. You can never go wrong with a movie made by HBO, and is something that you will want to pull out of the drawer and watch again and again.
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