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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783137780
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783137788
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 10116
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 08, 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
A $6 million box office theatrical run followed awards and acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. Should Ana leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision, but for 18 year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life. Right now, she may be making clothes for less shapely women. But Ana is about to discover that real women take chances, have flaws, embrace life, and above all have curves!
Amazon.com:
While My Big Fat Greek Wedding broke box-office records in 2002, Real Women Have Curves did a better job of keeping it real. Set in the vibrant environs of East Los Angeles, with a breakthrough performance by Latina newcomer America Ferrera, this comedic drama takes a familiar subject--a bright teenager struggling to define her identity--and turns it into an authentic celebration of feminine empowerment. Eighteen-year-old Ana (Ferrera) has scholarship potential, her first boyfriend, and a chubby figure that her similarly overweight mother (Lupe Ontiveros, perfectly cast) won't stop harping about. Mom insists that Ana work in her sister's dressmaking sweatshop, continuing a family tradition that can only break her spirit. How Ana defies this fate--and how director Patricia Cardoso captures the proud tenacity of several full-figured seamstresses--is what makes this film (adapted from a play by Josefina Lopez) so uniquely refreshing. Greek Wedding made more money, but Real Women--which is just as funny--makes a lot more sense. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Good Try
This movie had a good idea for a story, but did not follow through on many aspects. The main character is a high school graduate who is not going to college, because of her family (she needs to stay behind and help them, though only the mother seems to believe this, so it does not seem to be too much of a problem). Like the college "problem" many of the problems in the plot are seemingly easy to fix and or not explained, fixed, and instead, are just accepted. She has to work at her sister's sweat ... Read More
Rating:  - Fantastic!
I love this movie, it's become one of my favorite movies to watch. America Ferrera is a great actress in movies and on T.V. such as Ugly Betty.
Rating: - Real Women Have Curves
This movie is so great! I absolutley love it! One of America Ferrera's best films, and all the other actors are fabulous as well!
Rating: - PATRICIA CARDOSO, OPUS 1
**** 2002. Based on Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves, this film was directed by the Colombian director Patricia Cardoso. Two prizes in Sundance. Los Angeles. Ana has just finished high school. As though she's got the opportunity to go to a famous university, her family wants her to work in her sister's factory as a dressmaker. This dramatic comedy is a little jewel of sensibility. You won't find in it serious thoughts about integration in the U.S. but rather light commentaries about life as it ... Read More
Rating: - An absolute joy
After looking at some of the other Amazon reviews I'm wondering if I should try and come up with anything critical - and, although the themes and issues are broadly drawn, I just don't have the heart. This is a wonderful movie. I laughed, my heart was warmed, and I love the messages. I'd never heard of Real Women Have Curves until happening upon it at the library. I hope more women, especially women with any doubts about themselves, get to see it. And although the ending was a little disappointing (for ... Read More
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