ABOUT THE MOVIE:
The film stars America Ferrera, Elizabeth Peņa, and Lucy Gallardo in a "tender comedy of sensual awakening". Written and directed by Georgina Garcia Riedel and filmed in Arizona, How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer lovingly explores the sensuality, longing and self-realization in three generations of single women in a Mexican American family as their romantic drought turns into a drenching over a hot, dusty summer in the southwest.
As a sweltering summer stretches over a sun-bleached Arizona border town, Doņa Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), the Garcia family matriarch, decides to buy a car. The only catch is that she doesn't know how to drive. When she enlists Don Pedro's (Jorge Cervera Jr.) teaching skills, sparks begin to fly. Her daughter, Lolita, played with deadpan poignancy by Elizabeth Peņa, seems to have hit a dry spell, until things start to sizzle at the butcher shop where she works. Meanwhile Lolita's teenage daughter, a radiant America Ferrera, engineers an awakening all her own. Cervera Jr., Steven Bauer, Rick Najera and newcomer Leo Minaya play the male interests who jump-start a multi-generational sexual revolution.
This film has been screened internationally and at Sundance and the New York and Los Angeles Latino Film Festivals and will open in 54 theatres across the U.S.
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