How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
America Ferrera as Blanca Garcia
Directed by	Georgina Riedel
Written by	Georgina Riedel
Starring	Elizabeth Peña America Ferrera Lucy Gallardo
Cinematography	Tobias Datum
Edited by	Sean Olson
Distributed by	Maya Entertainment
Release date	January 25, 2005 (2005-01-25)
Running time	128 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Spanish

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer is a 2005 American comedy film starring Elizabeth Peña. It was not released on DVD until May 16, 2008. The film won the Silver George for the Best Film of the Perspective competition at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1]

The plot concerns three generations of Garcia women in a sleepy Arizona town who experience a sexual awakening during the course of a summer: teenaged Blanca Garcia; her mother, Lolita; and her grandmother, Doña.

Doña, the matriarch of the family, decides to buy a car but doesn't know how to drive. Her gardener, a man named Don Pedro offers to teach her, and the relationship gradually turns from platonic to romantic. Meanwhile, Doña's daughter, Lolita, is torn between her co-worker at the butcher shop where she works and Victor, a married man who frequently makes passes at women around town. Seventeen-year-old Blanca falls for the new guy in town and learns about the joy and pain an intimate relationship can bring.

Throughout the story, the women struggle to sort out their sexual feelings while trying not to further damage their sometimes strained family relationship. Most of the dialogue is in English, with occasional humorous digressions of old men sitting around talking in Spanish about their past experiences with cars and women.

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