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Real Women Have Curves [DVD] [2003]
enlarge	Director: Patricia Cardoso Actors: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez, Brian Sites Studio: Mosaic Movies Category: DVD List Price: ~~£13.99~~ Buy New: £4.68 as of 22/11/2009 19:09 GMT details You Save: £9.31 (67%) New (4) Used (12) from £3.45 Seller: ____the_best_on_dvd____ Rating: 8 reviews Sales Rank: 47725 Format: PAL Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 90 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 7321900952736 ASIN: B0000DZRCV Theatrical Release Date: November 8, 2002 Release Date: August 4, 2003 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next » Refreshing flick with a twist October 8, 2005 Z. Kamarzaman (Staffordshire) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful I really thoroughly enjoy this film. It did made me cry. It emphasizes the relationship and the dynamics of the family. A teenager, her adult sister and her mom with a dash of hidden issues ie globalisation of market, feminist issues and the traditionalist view of family.brWell worth watching - you don't get many positive Hispanic film especially with bits of hidden agenda cunningly placed without overemphasizing it. brBrilliant. I must be a real woman! February 12, 2007 CJR (Spain) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful My sister had been going on and on about this little known film called Real Women Have Curves, how great it was and how much she loved it and identified with it. I eventually decided to watch it one evening when nothing better was on and oh my word was she right!!! This film is gritty and smart and true to life. I alternately laughed and cried and as soon as it was over i got on the phone to my sister. It has a real uplifting feel good thread to it and i would recommend it to anyone. Real Women Have Spirit! September 29, 2005 F. V. L. Buliciri (London, UK) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful What a marvellous film! I really enjoyed watching this film. I found it refreshing to see a film like this where the main heroine was Hispanic, intelligent, self-assured and definitely curvy far removed from the stick-thin American teenage actresses who grace our screens from time to time.America Ferrara who plays Ana gives a wonderful performance and there are excellent performances from the cast all round. I think the underlying message of this film is being true to yourself and not being frightened to overcome your circumstances in life to live life to the full. I liked the way Ana stood up for herself and to her mother and family and embraced the American Dream by going to Columbia University in the end especially as her family were sceptical about having such high aspirations.I highly recommend this film to anyone to see especially any teenage girls suffering from low self-esteem. Watch Ana and embrace the woman that you are! this film will make you smile! November 16, 2005 2 out of 5 found this review helpful this film was sooo good! it shows you that real women do infact haev curves. Ana is a really sweet girl with a not very nice mother. Ana is proud of her curves and so she should be.If you#x27;re on a bit of a downer aboout your weight this film will makes you feel loads better! Young Ana Garcia takes on her mother and the world July 12, 2005 Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) 6 out of 7 found this review helpful The surprise in "Real Women Have Curves" is not that Ana Garcia (American Ferrera) is able to get into a first rate college, given that she is the daughter of a poor Latino family in East L.A., because we buy that she is smart enough. But given her family, it is rather surprising that she dares to dream the dream. Certainly it is nothing that was every discussed around the dinner table in the Garcia family. Her father, Raúl (Jorge Cervera, Jr.) is a gardener and her mother, Carmen (Lupe Ontiveros) makes dresses at the sweatshop run by Ana's sister, Estela (Ingrid Oliu). Her mother dismisses out of hand the idea that Ana can go to college and insists she come to work at the dress shop. Although Ana's teacher, Mr. Guzman (George Lopez), continues to encourage her it is not until Ana endures working in the sweatshop for a while that she becomes desperate enough to sit down and write that college application essay. pWhile the story of this 2002 film begins with a young girl graduating high school and ends with her on her way to college, as the title of "Real Women Have Curves" should indicate, this is really about notions of self-worth and body image. Estela's shop makes dresses that are sold for ten times what they are paid on consignment from a big company that is exploiting their cheap labor. Despite her overbearing mother, Ana has enough brains to know exploitation of the workers when she sees it and enough self-confidence to challenge the way of the world for all the good that might do anybody. But then another idea becomes more important as Ana gets her co-workers to wonder why big women (the size of say, cows, hippos, elephants and orcas) should not get to wear beautiful dresses cut to their own figures. The best scene in the movie is when Ana is sweating to death in the dress shop and decides being comfortable is a worthy goal. The next thing we know the ladies are comparing their bodies and driving Ana's mother absolutely crazy.pThis was originally a play by Josefina Lopez, who worked on the teleplay along with George LaVoo for this film directed by Patricia Cardoso ("El Reino de los cielos"). The flaw that most stands out in this film is that having created an ideal with regards to a beautiful dress for a real woman with curves, we never get the payoff, even though such a dress materializes. This is rather disappointing seeing as how the dress becomes pivotal to my deconstructing of the film, but while I endorse the ideological sentiments of the film regarding female body image I am obviously not in a position to do so from personal knowledge, which may well indicate that I am off base here.pThis DVD has a pair of above average commentary tracks, the first with actresses Ferrera and Ontiveros, and the second with the director and the screenwriters. Since all are committed to the message of the film, they actually discuss the importance of what is going on and how such issues resonate in their own lives and careers (especially in terms of Lopez), rather than simply telling stories of what happened on the set and other sundry topics. Ferrera is clearly the star of this film, and her performance is a winning one whatever problems we may see with the teleplay, but for those who were introduced to Ontiveros's talents on "Desperate Housewives" it is certainly nice to see here playing a more completely fleshed out (so to speak) character, and her participation in the commentary track is equally as strong. In the end the key thing is that this film is not merely for Latino women, but all real women with curves, and if this film teaches them anything it is to make sure they are exposed to its rhetorical position when they are still young. Showing reviews 1-5 of 8 1 2 Next »

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