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Doña Herlinda and Her Son

Country: Mexico, Language: Spanish, 90 mins

Original Title

Doña Herlinda y Su Hijo
  • Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
  • Writer: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo; Jorge López Páez
  • Producer: Manuel Barbachano Ponce; Guillermo del Toro

CGiii Comment

Memories...hideous memories.

Watch it for the 80s shorts, the tight jeans, the moustaches, the bouffants and the horrific dancing - this has it all.

This little beauty also has appalling sound, some truly awkward directorial moments and a multitude of continuity and script errors.

As a whole, it's bloody awful and will appeal to only those who wish to limp down an avenue of tree-lined nostalgia.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Rodolfo (Trevino) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon (Meza). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga (Lupercio) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda (del Toro) has the final solution to make everybody happy: She asks Ramon to live with her, near by Rodolfo and Olga. Everybody together forever.

Cast & Characters

Guillermina Alba as Billy;
Guadalupe Del Toro as Dona Herlinda;
Leticia Lupercio as Olga;
Arturo Meza as Ramon;
Gustavo Mezza;
Marco Antonio Trevi'o as Rodolfo;
Lucha Villa as Herself