Doña Herlinda and Her Son

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

Doña Herlinda and Her Son

5.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

21

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1985

Release Year

90 min

Runtime

Comedy

Romance

Overview

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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Keywords

mexico

doctor

lgbt

weightlifting

french horn

mother son relationship

gay theme

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Cast

Guadalupe del Toro

Doña Herlinda

Marco Antonio Treviño

Rodolfo

Arturo Meza

Ramón

Leticia Lupercio

Olga

Lucha Villa

Lucha Villa

Herself

Guillermina Alba

Billy

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Reviews(1)

8.0avg rating

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raistlin3

November 10, 2013

8

8/10

Doña Herlinda and Her Son, the 1985 film from writer/director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, is not only a funny, warm gay romantic comedy, it also marks the first time that a Latin American film depicted gay relationships positively. I enjoyed this film a great deal, and recommend it. The story, and…

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