Doña Herlinda and Her Son
From the land of the margarita, the taco and the macho
Film19851h 30m
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- Director
- Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
- Language
- Spanish
- Released
- 1985-11-11
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
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A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.
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