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From the gay filmmakers/partners who made The Fluffer comes this superb tale set in their own Echo Park LA neighborhood. Winner of both the Dramatic Audience and Jury Awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and deservedly so this crowd-pleaser deftly balances gay and straight storylines while presenting an engaging tale about sexuality culture clashes and gentrification.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396163089 Manufacturer No: 16308
A Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner, Quinceañera is a small film with a big heart. The plot unfolds at the leisurely pace
From the gay filmmakers/partners who made The Fluffer comes this superb tale set in their own Echo Park LA neighborhood. Winner of both the Dramatic Audience and Jury Awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and deservedly so this crowd-pleaser deftly balances gay and straight storylines while presenting an engaging tale about sexuality culture clashes and gentrification.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396163089 Manufacturer No: 16308
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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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 9 January 2007
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0043396163089 UPC: 043396163089
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