Quinceanera
by Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer
List Price:
Our Price: $10.99
You Save: $3.95 (26%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.54 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Araceli Guzman-Rico, Emily Rios, J.R. Cruz, Jesus Castanos, Listette AvilaDirector: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Quinceanera
Movie Review: Truly marvelous
Summary: 5 Stars
What holds this movie together and most independent films is the big heart behind it. The biggest ones ofcourse goes to the three leads, Jesse Garcia(Carlos), Emily Rios(Magdalena) and Chalo Gonzalez(Tio Tomas). These three made the movie. Their interpretation of their characters is so on the mark. And the Title? I think it's no use explaining what Quinceanera is all about but let me give it a try. It's a celebration to mark the transition of a girl to womanhood. It's real big, sometimes parents spend more on this than the wedding. Why 15, some sociological anthropologist surmise that it was an ancient mayan ritual melded into Christianity. Anyway, Magdalena's Quinceanera is really just a backdrop. It's just that so many life altering events happens as she looks forward to her big day. One being a virginal pregnancy which might puzzle some viewers, but I think this is an atempt to pay homage to the the style of literature that is Latin American; Magical Thinking made popular by novelist/nobel laurette- Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. I think it's a nice touch. And for some of us who has lived and is familiar with the setting, Echo Park, this movie will make you homesick. You can see that some of the same shops and streets haven't change much and it's real cool that the filmakers used real people who lived there and shot the film almost entirely on location. My hats off to the actors and the filmakers, what a lobor of love and it shows. Please watch the DVD extras. It is just as interesting like the fact the Emily Rios grew up in a Jehovah Witnesses' family(the religious sect that don't beleive in celebrating birthdays, holloween, christmas, anything-PartyPoopers! but I hear that it's okay for couples to celebrate their Wedding Anniversaries.) so Rios never had a Quinceanera or anything like it and Jesse Garcia grew up in the midWest, no exposures to Chicano culture or gang life. Chalo Gonzales who lovingly portrays Tio Tomas is an old western, Sam Pekinpah actor, expresses his aprreciation for being in the movie with such joy that's its palpable and you cry along with him. I highly recommend this movie. It's a real treat.
Summary of Quinceanera
From the gay filmmakers/partners who made The Fluffer comes this superb tale set in their own Echo Park LA neighborhood. Winner of both the Dramatic Audience and Jury Awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and deservedly so this crowd-pleaser deftly balances gay and straight storylines while presenting an engaging tale about sexuality culture clashes and gentrification.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?R UPC:?043396163089 Manufacturer No:?16308A Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize-winner, Quincea?era is a small film with a big heart. The plot unfolds at the leisurely pace of life itself, yet there's not a wasted moment in the script. The story follows the travails of young Magdalena (Emily Rios), a teen in the Mexican-American, but gentrifying, Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. As Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, and the festive coming-of-age quincea?era party that accompanies it, life throws her a curve ball in the form of an unexpected--and possibly miraculous--pregnancy. In disgrace, she turns to her elderly uncle Tomas and sometime gangbanger and not-quite-uncloseted gay cousin Carlos. The interactions of these unlikely family members ring completely true, with stellar performances by Dios as well as Chalo Gonz?lez as her warm Tio Tomas and Jesse Garcia as the smoldering Carlos. The portrayal of life in Echo Park is intimate and effortless, as the teens slide interchangeably between Spanish and English; crime and gang activities coexist with trendy gay couples and their fashionable remodels. And in the heart of it all, the family ties among the three lead characters prove unconventional--and unbreakable. The DVD also contains a commentary with the filmmakers and cast members, a Q&A with them, and a "making-of" featurette. --A.T. Hurley
Comedy DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in Gay Black and Latino Films that star or feature black and latino actor
Cut Sleeve BoysWELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2007-11-13; DVD
Best price: $17.36
Price in other shops:
Looking for Langston (B&W)Release date: 2007-07-31; DVD
Best price: $13.80
Price in other shops:
Another Gay MovieTLA RELEASING; Release date: 2006-11-21; DVD
Best price: $13.76
Price in other shops:
Broken SkyRelease date: 2007-01-16; DVD
Best price: $13.75
Price in other shops:
ProteusRelease date: 2004-12-07; DVD
Best price: $13.76
Price in other shops:
Locked UpRelease date: 2004-11-16; DVD
Best price: $10.79
Price in other shops:
Strange FruitARIZTICAL ENTERTAINMENT INC; Release date: 2006-09-19; DVD
Best price: $8.57
Price in other shops:
Dante's Cove - Season 3WELLSPRING/GENIUS; Release date: 2008-06-03; DVD
Best price: $20.46
Price in other shops:
Tongues UntiedRelease date: 2008-03-18; DVD
Best price: $13.35
Price in other shops:
Young Soul RebelsRelease date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $13.75
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Maria Full of GraceRelease date: 2004-12-07; DVD
Best price: $5.07
Price in other shops:
Eating Out 2: Sloppy SecondsARIZTICAL ENTERTAINMENT INC; Release date: 2007-05-29; DVD
Best price: $13.51
Price in other shops:
Half NelsonSony; Release date: 2007-02-13; DVD
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
My FamilyRelease date: 2004-04-06; DVD
Best price: $10.99
Price in other shops:
Broken SkyRelease date: 2007-01-16; DVD
Best price: $13.75
Price in other shops:
The History BoysTWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT; Release date: 2007-04-17; DVD
Best price: $3.35
Price in other shops:
Real Women Have CurvesWarner Brothers; Release date: 2005-09-06; DVD
Best price: $6.47
Price in other shops:
WalkoutWarner Brothers; Release date: 2007-03-06; DVD
Best price: $6.39
Price in other shops:
Al Otro LadoRelease date: 2007-03-06; DVD
Best price: $11.48
Price in other shops:
VolverSony; Release date: 2007-04-03; DVD
Best price: $7.66
Price in other shops: