How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

Three generations of women all search for love, or at least a satisfied libido, in this sweet – but slow – movie. There is a running theme about women and cars, and each woman’s fate is affected by cars or lack thereof. The granddaughter (America Ferrera) is a 17 year old coming of age and looking to explore her sexuality, and thinks she finds it when a cute guy rides into her (very!) small town in the middle of nowhere. Her mom (Elizabeth Peña), who has been all work and no play for years, tries to fight temptation with a neighborhood flirt. And Grandma seeks independence by buying an old car and getting driving lessons from her gardener. Grandma is a very proper woman but finds difficulty in suppressing her desires. This is a very slow moving, low budget-type movie, with some long sensual scenes that were, at times, a little uncomfortable to watch. But if you have patience for this type of movie, this one has a quiet beauty about it. All I can say is: Go Grandma!