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10/18/08
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How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 21
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Consensus: At turns comical and sincere, Garcia Girls is an intelligent and intimate portrait of three women finding love at different ages.
Theatrical Release: May 16, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $91,432
Synopsis: What does female desire look like? And how do self-inflicted limitations and social expectations shade and color it? In her tenderly comic, richly textured feature debut, Georgina Garcia Riedel lovingly explores the terrain of... [More]
Starring: America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peņa, Lucy Gallardo, Steven Bauer
Director: Georgina Garcia Riedel
Reviews for How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
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10/18/08
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Pena has a great role and delivers her best performance since Lone Star in 1996.
08/01/08
Riedel reveals herself to be a novice filmmaker, especially in the pacing of most scenes.
07/24/08
A lovingly crafted portrait of a kind of life not often seen on the big screen.
06/26/08
Like Blanca and her friends, walking languidly down the street, then spontaneousy grabbing a shopping cart for a ride, Reidel plays with the rhythm of her enjoyably unhurried tale.
06/13/08
Although the story is overly familiar, Riedel's evocation of small-town life rings true.
05/21/08
This is a movie with wonderful, strong performances from three very talented women.
05/20/08
It's a smart little film, although there are some odd cinematographic moments --- curious, at best. And at two hours plus, the movie runs at least 20 minutes too long.
05/20/08
Top Critic If your taste is for movies off the beaten path, run out and see this one before it disappears.
05/17/08
A tenderly spun tale of female sexual desire traversing three generations of Latina women north of the border, the movie is crafted glowingly from a woman's point of view, and with supreme sensitivity, dignity, warmth, sadness and humor.
05/16/08
With the Garcia Girls, Riedel will take the right audiences someplace this summer.
05/16/08
Riedel's film is a breakthrough achievement and a hopeful sign of more to come.
05/16/08
The film is sensitively told and appealingly bittersweet, though the story at times meanders and loses its way.
05/16/08
Top Critic Garcia Riedel is affectionate toward her characters to a fault - cameras linger as they walk down the street or make other prosaic moves, dragging the already sluggish story's pacing even more -- but she does get some lovely behavior out of each actress.
05/16/08
With equal measures of discretion and honesty, Riedel directly addresses the sensuality of all three women, achieving an almost startling sense of intimacy in scenes that range from mesmerizingly intense and gently comical.
05/16/08
Writer-director Georgina Garcia Riedel makes inventive use of the wide-screen format in this gentle, poetic 2005 comedy.
05/16/08
Ms. Reidel also deserves credit for depicting the possibility of finding love at all ages, something that larger and more mainstream movies so often shy away from showing.
05/16/08
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August 27, 2008:
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