Real Women Have Curves

Ana, a first generation Mexican American teenager living in East Los Angeles, has just graduated from high school. Although Ana is excited about the possibility of going to college, her overbearing and hypercritical mother, Carmen, insists that it is time for her to help provide for the family by working in her sister’s sewing factory. This film is a humorous and warmhearted look at a young girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty and her own personal aspirations.