Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves
“ Real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life... ”
CINEMA2002-10-18
DIGITAL2003-04-24
RegionUS
Runtime90 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A coming-of-age film about body image, immigrant family pressure, class, and the right to choose one's own future.”
Storyline
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
DIRECTOR / Director
Patricia Cardoso
KEYWORDS
coming of ageteenage girlwoman director
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