Doña Herlinda y su hijo

"From the land of the margarita, the taco and the macho"

Apr 4 1986 Unrated 1h 30m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

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.

Plot

Rodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, he quickly asks modern and open-mind Olga ( Letícia Lupercio ) to become his wife. Ramon is heart-broken, but Dona Herlinda ( Guadalupe 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.

Written by

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Jorge López Páez

Directed by

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Cast

Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño, Guadalupe Del Toro

Crew

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Production Countries

Mexico

Production Companies

Clasa Films Mundiales, Vanguard Cinema

Languages

Español

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers
CINE GAY MÉXICO; Doña Herlinda y su hijo
Scores
# of Votes
624
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA