Doña Herlinda and Her Son

Nov 11, 1985

1h 30m

★ 5.2

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Clasa Films Mundiales

Vanguard Cinema

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Cast

Doña Herlinda

Guadalupe del Toro

Rodolfo

Marco Antonio Treviño

Ramón

Arturo Meza

Olga

Leticia Lupercio

Herself

Lucha Villa

Billy

Guillermina Alba

Chisato is a beautiful 35-year-old writer, who looks like 18, and the father of Riju, a cute 15-year-old boy. Chisato's hobby is to drive away all of Riju's friends because he thinks they want to corrupt his precious child, so he shows his good side to these boys while he poisons the cake he brings them with a smile; however, there is one guy, Shunsuke, who doesn't fall for the tricks. But is Shunsuke really aiming for Riju? Who is that mysterious writer Chisato loves so much? And why is Chisato convinced that Riju's friends want to take advantage of him?

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