La Madrastra

telenovela


title = La Madrastra
country = Mexico
year = 2005
network = Televisa
language = Spanish
director = Eric Morales
Édgar Ramírez
producer = Salvador Mejía Alejandre
cinematographer = Jesús Nájera Saro
Lino Adrián Gama Esquinca (on location)
writer = Arturo Moya Grau (original)
Mauricio Aridjis, Julián Aguilar & Liliana Abud (adaptation)| script = Martha Olaíz | Tania Bartran | Antonio Abascal
cast = Victoria Ruffo
César Évora
Jacqueline Andere
Guillermo Garcia Cantu
music = Jorge Avendaño
theme_song = "Víveme"
performer = Laura Pausini
episodes = 120
preceded_by = Mujer de Maderafollowed_by = La Esposa Virgen

"La Madrastra" ("The Stepmother") is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Univision in the United States in 2005.

It is a remake of the Chilean production of the same name of 1981 (which was originally written by Arturo Moya Grau and directed by Oscar Rodriguez). Two other productions were made as "Vivir un poco" (1985) with Angélica Aragón and "Para toda la vida" (1996) with Ofelia Medina in the starring roles.

The show got attention in the United States via E!'s The Soup which would have weekly recaps of the show and clips of its more outrageous moments. Host Joel McHale would often get excited talking about it, at one point stating "I can think of fifteen network shows I understand that aren't this good!"

toryline

Maria (Victoria Ruffo) is on a trip with her husband Esteban and other friends, when she finds her friend Patricia dead. She is accused of the murder and incarcerated. While in jail her husband divorces her. Everyone makes a pact to keep this a secret, Maria has two young children who have no idea that their mother is still alive, their father tells them that she died and everyone goes along with it.

Twenty years later Maria is let out for good conduct and is full of vengeance and hate. Her goal is to get back her children Hector and Estrella whom she loves very much. Maria makes her way back to the people that she once knew, and she finds out that there's a portrait of a woman in her ex-husband's house whom he has told their children that it's the picture of their mother. Every year they have a memorial service for the woman in the portrait. The woman in the portrait looks nothing like Maria. This angers Maria even further.

She eventually goes on to marry Esteban but her children do not accept her because they don't know that she's really their mother(and she treats them bad). They can never accept a stepmother. Esteban has another son Angel, but he's not really his son, he raised Angel as his own. It turns out that Angel is the son of one of his aunt's and to avoid scandal he has raised him as his own. Maria bonds with Angel, although she has a much harder time bonding with Estrella and Hector. Estrella is particularly rebellious because although she has everything a girl her age could want, she misses the love of her mother. Maria also finds out that one of Esteban's aunts, Alba has always been in love with Esteban and has always hated Maria. In the end, Maria gets back her children and uncovers the murderer of Patricia.

Cast

*Victoria Ruffo as Maria--main heroine
*Cesar Evora as Esteban--main heroThis mexican telenovela is based on a women named Maria who is on a trip with her husband and a group of friends in Aruba. While in Aruba Maria goes to her friend's room Patricia at the hotel when she finds Patricia dead and a gun on the floor she holds the gun making her guilty in front of the court. 20 years later Maria is let out of jail because of good conduct and returns to Mexico to see her two children whom she had left while they were very young. The children have no idea that their mom is alive, and all of Maria's friends who were on that trip including her husband decided to get a portrait of a women and make the children believe that the women on the portrait was their dead mother. When Maria finds out she gets really angry. Still her goal is to get the respect that she deserved by proving that she was innocent to everyone and also to gain her children's love again. Maria is commited to reach her goal so she makes her ex-husband Esteban for them to get married that way she will get her children's love again. Maria's new marrige with Esteban dislikes to everyone including Esteban's aunt Alba and Maria's two kids Estrella and Hector. Now Alba's goal is to get Maria to leave the house by making Estrella and Hector hate her. When Maria finally gets Esteban to believe her they both decide to find Patricia's real murdurer. So as MAria and Esteban search for clues, a series of dangerous things happen to Maria but in none of them she got hurt it was Patricia's killer who whas after Maria because he had found out so to keep Maria from learning it he tried to kill her but it was no use Maria didn't get hurt. now that Maria has almost all of the clues all of the people who had been on that trip decided to go back to Aruba to that same hotel, but what they don't know is that the killer is some were between them. As they all together search Esteban's aunt Alba admimts that she is in love with him and goes crazy and commits suicide after saying to the court that Esteban had killed Patricia and Esteban was taken to jail in Aruba so one of Esteban's friends who was in that group named Demetrio decides to take place as Esteban's lawyer in Aruba's court. While this happens a bell boy in the hotel who was about to testify against the real killer is found shot on the floor of a storage in the hotel this leads to Demetrio's neace who had also been found killed that same day that they killed the bellhop in Ana Rosa's purse is found a video of Demetrio killing Patricia. After this Maria, Esteban, Etrella, and Hector lived in peace at last.

First Actors

*Jacqueline Andere as Alba--aunt of Esteban, blonde villain
*Ana Martin as Socorro--wife of DaVinci,mother of Greco and Lupita
*Margarita Isabel as Carmela--sister of Alba, aunt of Esteban
*Irma Serrano "La Tigresa" as Duquesa--owner of the Xochimilco restaurant
*Lorenzo de Rodas as Servando--business partner of Esteban
*Joaquin Cordero as Father Belisario
*Patricia Reyes Spindola as Venturina--maid of Servando,

Supporting Cast

*Eduardo Capetillo as Leonel--son of Patricia, in love with Lupita
*Guillermo Garcia Cantu as Demetrio--business partner of Esteban, husband of Daniela
*Cecilia Gabriela as Daniela-wife of Demetrio
*Rene Casados as Bruno--husband of Fabiola, business partner of Esteban
*Sabine Moussier as Fabiola--wife of Bruno, in love with Esteban, villain
*Ana Layevska as Estrella--daughter of Maria and Esteban, in love with Greco
*Mauricio Aspe as Hector--son of Maria and Esteban, in love with Vivian
*Mike Biaggio as Angel--son of Carmela, in love with Alma
*Michelle Vieth as Vivian--friend of Maria, in love with Hector
*Jose Luis Resendez as Greco--son of Socorro and DaVinci,in love with Estrella
*Mariana Rios as Lupita--daughter of Socorro and DaVinci,in love with Leonel,secretary at the Empresas San Roman
*Sergio Mayer as Carlos--in love with Estrella, son of El Pulpo, villain
*Martha Julia as Ana Rosa--niece of Daniela, in love with Esteban, villain, before the end good
*Monserrat Olivier as Patricia--murdered woman, mother of Loenel, villain
*Carlos Bonavides as Rufino Sanchez "El Pulpo"--father of Carlos
*Archie Lanfranco as Luciano--lawyer who freed Maria and Vivan from prison
*Marcelo Buquet as Gerardo Salgado--businessman in love with Maria
*Arturo Garcia Tenorio as "DaVinci"--husband of Socorro, father of Lupita and Greco
*Liza Willer as Rebeca--housekeeper at the San Roman Mansion
*Maria Luisa Alcala as Fanny--woman in love with Pulpo
*Diana Golden as Diana (interpreted Paricia in the cabin episodes)
*Ximena Herrera as Alma-- secretary at the Empresas San Roman, in love with Angel

Trivia about the novela

The novela was rerun in 2007 in the 6:00 P.M. slot on Televisa. Ten episodes were added to the end, with a different murderer from the original broadcast run. The murderer the first time around, in 2005, was Demetrio, portrayed by Guillermo Garcia Cantu. In the second version, in 2007, producer Salvador Mejia did not want to repeat the first version, so the assassin was Fabiola, portrayed by Sabine Moussier. We founded only Mexican Telenovelas dubbed in Hiligaynon version in the Philippines now by regionals in Western Visayas, played by GMA TV 6 Iloilo.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430839/ La Madrastra] at the Internet Movie Database
*es icon [http://www.esmas.com/lamadrastra/ Official site] on Televisa