How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
2005 film by Georgina Garcia Riedel
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer is a 2005 American comedy film starring Elizabeth Peña. It was released on DVD June 8, 2008. The film won the Silver George for the Best Film of the Perspective competition at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.
Premise
The plot concerns three generations of Garcia women in a sleepy Arizona town who experience an awakening during the course of a summer: teenaged Blanca Garcia; her mother, Lolita; and her grandmother, Doña.
Doña, the matriarch of the family, decides to buy a car but doesn't know how to drive. Her gardener, a man named Don Pedro offers to teach her, and the relationship gradually turns from platonic to romantic. Meanwhile, Doña's daughter, Lolita, is torn between her co-worker at the butcher shop where she works and Victor, a married man who frequently makes passes at women around town. Seventeen-year-old Blanca falls for the new guy in town and learns about the joy and pain an intimate relationship can bring.
Throughout the story, the women struggle to sort out their feelings while trying not to further damage their sometimes strained family relationship. Most of the dialogue is in English, with occasional humorous digressions of old men sitting around talking in Spanish about their past experiences with cars and women.
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