Quincea%C3%B1era (film)

Quinceaera English Fifteenyearold, referring to a comingofage ceremony in Latin American communities is a 2006 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, the film follows the lives of two young Mexican American cousins who become estranged from their familiesMagdalena played by Emily Rios because of her unwed teenage pregnancy and Carlos Jesse Garcia because of his homosexualityand are taken in by their elderly greatuncle Tomas Chalo Gonzlez.

Magdalena, a fourteenyearold girl from a workingclass Mexican American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles, attends her cousin Eileens quinceaera, an extravagant comingofage ceremony to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. Eileens older brother Carloswho has been disowned by his family due to his homosexuality and now lives with his greatuncle Tomasarrives at the celebrations but is forced to leave by his father. Magdalena herself is about to turn fifteen but her parents cannot afford to host a quinceaera as lavish as Eileens, and they deny her repeated requests to hire a Hummer limousine for the occasion. While preparing for her quinceaera, Magdalena learns that she is pregnant by her friend Herman although they had only once engaged in nonpenetrative intercourse. Her Christian father is furious, believing that Magdalena has had premarital sex despite her protestations that she is still a virgin. She leaves her family to move in with Tomas and Carlos and continues to see Herman until she discovers that his mother has sent him away to live with relatives to prevent him from seeing Magdalena.Carlos becomes sexually involved with the Caucasian gay couple, James and Gary, who recently bought Tomass property and are now his landlords and neighbors, but he eventually begins a secret affair with Gary without Jamess knowledge. With Magdalenas pregnancy progressing, Carlos offers to financially support her and to act as a surrogate father for the child once it is born. When James discovers his partners affair with Carlos he feels betrayed and Tomas soon receives a letter notifying him that his landlords are evicting him. Tomas, Magdalena and Carlos struggle to find an affordable place to live due to the gentrification of the area and the rising real estate prices, but Tomas dies in his sleep shortly before they are due to be evicted. In the aftermath, Magdalena is reunited with her mother and together they visit a gynecologist, who confirms that Magdalena conceived without havin

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