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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 34535
Released: April 22, 2003 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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!
Description of Real Women Have Curves:
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
Real Women Have Curves Reviews:
PATRICIA CARDOSO, OPUS 1 
2008-07-08 - **** 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 is. Highly recommended.
An absolute joy 
2008-05-02 - 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 some reason I thought Ana would help lead the workers out of the sweatshop and into a more lucrative business catering to full-figured women), I believe it's the more realistic one. Estupendo!
Cute, enjoyable movie :-D
2008-03-26 - I first saw this movie several years back after renting it as a new release and really enjoying it. I was cleaning out my DVD collection last week and saw this and re-watched it. I enjoyed it as much as when it first came out.
America Ferrera plays Ana Garcia who is a smart student with a good chance for a college scholarship. She is burdened by a mother who believes she's fat and ugly and not smart enough to go to college, and is more needed at home. The story is based around her straight after leaving high school with her teacher (George Lopez) trying to convince her to apply for this scholarship for Columbia. She also goes to work for her sister who is trying to make ends meet making beautiful dresses for Bloomingdales. She also begins secretly dating Jimmy who doesn't care if she's not a size 2. Her mother all the while is a drain on Ana's emotions (and a big pain in the neck).
It's a great independant movie that is sweet and warm and funny in parts. America was a rising star back then and did a fantastic job in this film. It's really enjoyable and hope you enjoy it too.
Real Women Have Curves
2007-08-31 - It is America Ferrer at her finest. Anyone with old fashioned hispanic parents can relate to her. Highly Recommended!!!!
Fun Movie!
2007-05-06 - I loved this movie....it is exceptionally well acted, witty, with a smart and biting script. Though it's technically a "chick flick", I think men would enjoy it also (although maybe not admit that). I saw it on television and liked it so much I wanted to see the unedited version. You can never go wrong with a movie made by HBO, and is something that you will want to pull out of the drawer and watch again and again.
