How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

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Originally produced as a feature film in 2005.
Special feature: theatrical trailer.
Elizabeth Peña, America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo, Steven Bauer, Jorge Cervera, Jr., Rick Najera, Leo Minaya.
In the summer heat of a small Arizona border town, sparks fly for three generations of women. 17-year-old Blanca discovers romance for the first time with the new bad boy in town. Lolita, her mother, had hit a dry spell until the husband of one of her customers husband pays her a visit. Blanca's grandmother, Doña Genoveva enlists her gardener Don Pedro to give her driving lessons and learns about more than cars in the process.
DVD, region ; letterbox format; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Be warned. It's long. submitted by annikajoyce on July 27, 2018, 7:39am I watched this film because I love America Ferrera, but the plot-line and filming style made it an excruciating experience. Each shot, each scene, drags on to the absolute limit of the viewer's attention span. It would be a lie to say that I didn't fast forward through a few parts just to keep my sanity. The filmmaker revels in capturing the real-time length of each female lead's emotional silences, moments of contemplation, or instances of astonishment. While I can admire the intentions behind such a bold move, as a viewer, I spent a majority of the film wishing it would just end.