Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

Infobox Film
name = Real Women Have Curves


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caption = America Ferrera as Ana Garcia
director = Patricia Cardoso
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starring = America Ferrera
Lupe Ontiveros
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distributor = HBO
released = 2002
runtime = 90 min.
country = U.S.A.
language = English / Spanish
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imdb_id = 0296166

"Real Women Have Curves" is a 2002 American movie starring America Ferrera. Produced by HBO and directed by Patricia Cardoso, it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award in addition to Special Jury Prizes for both Ferrera and Lupe Ontiveros. The independent film earned in excess of five million dollars and brought the previously-unknown Ferrera to the public's attention.

The coming-of-age plot revolves around Ana Garcia, a Mexican-American teenager living in an East Los Angeles barrio. While attending Beverly Hills High School, where she is an accomplished student, she works in near-sweatshop conditions in her sister's dress factory alongside her mother, Carmen (Ontiveros), who considers this to be her younger daughter's vocation. But Ana, encouraged by her teacher Mr. Guzman (George Lopez), has dreams of attending Columbia. Before achieving her goal, she must try to balance her mother's traditional view of women with her own contemporary ideas while dealing with self-image issues and exploring a new romantic relationship.

ee also

*Fat feminism
*Fat acceptance movement

Based on the play, "Real Women Have Curves" by Josefina Lopez

External links

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*metacritic film|id=realwomenhavecurves|title=Real Women Have Curves
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* [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2069.asp Real Women Have Curves - Large and Lovely, BellaOnline]


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