In Theaters: How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
May 28, 2008 - Film Reviews
That was one long, hot summer, in so many ways. Three generations of Mexican American women in a small Texas town learn both bitter and sweet truths about love, sex and each other over a three-month period. Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera stars as the teenage daughter who carefully orchestrates her first ‘encounter’, Elizabeth Pena is her single mom who finally attempts to get love right and Lucy Gallardo is the sweet grandmother who falls for a used jalopy as well as her driving instructor/gardner. An amusing group of retired, Spanish speaking gentlemen act as a sort of Greek chorus. If writer/director Georgina Riedel only would have cut about thirty minutes of pointless camera lingering, this could have been a sleeper indie hit like Quinceanera or Real Women Have Curves. Instead, Garcia Girls clocks in at a scorching 128 minutes, and feels more like an endless summer. Rated R –LJM
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