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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396163089
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 12317
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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As Magdalena's (Emily Rios) 15th birthday approaches, her working class family prepares for the all-important Quinceañera - a lavish coming-of-age celebration. To help with expenses, Magdalena is forced to wear a hand-me-down party dress and abandon her dream of arriving in a Hummer limousine. But when her father discovers she's pregnant and refuses to believe the incredible truth - she's actually still a virgin - Magdalena moves in with her elderly Uncle Tomas (Chalo González) and black sheep cousin Carlos (Jesse Garcia). Her newfound family is soon put to the test, however, when an unexpected crisis threatens to tear them apart, and Magdalena learns what it truly means to come of age.
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A Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner, Quinceañera is a small film with a big heart. The plot unfolds at the leisurely pace of life itself, yet there's not a wasted moment in the script. The story follows the travails of young Magdalena (Emily Rios), a teen in the Mexican-American, but gentrifying, Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, and the festive coming-of-age quinceañera party that accompanies it, life throws her a curve ball in the form of an unexpected--and possibly miraculous--pregnancy. In disgrace, she turns to her elderly uncle Tomas and sometime gangbanger and not-quite-uncloseted gay cousin Carlos. The interactions of these unlikely family members ring completely true, with stellar performances by Dios as well as Chalo González as her warm Tio Tomas and Jesse Garcia as the smoldering Carlos. The portrayal of life in Echo Park is intimate and effortless, as the teens slide interchangeably between Spanish and English; crime and gang activities coexist with trendy gay couples and their fashionable remodels. And in the heart of it all, the family ties among the three lead characters prove unconventional--and unbreakable. The DVD also contains a commentary with the filmmakers and cast members, a Q&A with them, and a "making-of" featurette. --A.T. Hurley
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What holds this movie together and most independent films is the big heart behind it. The biggest ones ofcourse goes to the three leads, Jesse Garcia(Carlos), Emily Rios(Magdalena) and Chalo Gonzalez(Tio Tomas). These three made the movie. Their interpretation of their characters is so on the mark. And the Title? I think it's no use explaining what Quinceanera is all about but let me give it a try. It's a celebration to mark the transition of a girl to womanhood. It's real big, sometimes parents ... Read More
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This movie was well done, although I believe it was a little too short and could have explored a little more of the story lines. But if you are of the latino culture you will know exactly what this family experiences and I am sure you can relate to the whole Quinceanera experience. Jesse Garcia is a great actor in the film and I think it's his character that really makes the movie worth watching.
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It's sometimes hard to capture a true representation of a Hispanic family living in the United States. I was blown away by the raw reality I found in this film. All of the characters are so wonderfully portrayed, and every character takes the perfect course of action through the plot to result in the raw passions but undying love that families like this one experience.
If you were born into a Hispanic-American family, watch and enjoy. You will understand every second.
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Quinceañera is one of those very few indie films that truly score a huge goal. The convincing acting had me riveted to my seat throughout the picture; and I actually shed a few tears when I watched Carlos, the black sheep of the family, give a eulogy for his deceased Uncle Tomas near the end of the film. Quinceañera sends a big message about life in general, what growing up is really all about, and how tough things can be when an ethnic neighborhood becomes gentrified.
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quinceanera is a lot on the real side. an old tradition with lots of drama that really happens. i liked it because it does relate to the realities of life in a not so well to do family, a broken family, and a teenage mother. all things that happen, and are for real. they do it so well, but the only thing that i didn't like is that there isn't any real feelings there. maybe just in jesse garcia's case (carlos). he brought it. the outsider of the familia, because he's down and he brings that ese vibe to ... Read More
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