Story Line
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.
“From the land of the margarita, the taco and the macho”
Top Cast
Guadalupe del Toro
Doña Herlinda
Marco Antonio Treviño
Rodolfo
Arturo Meza
Ramón
Leticia Lupercio
Olga
Lucha Villa
Herself
Guillermina Alba
Billy
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Rating
5.3/ 10
Release Date
1985-11-11
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
ComedyRomance
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User Reviews (1)
raistlin3
8/10
•11/10/2013Doña Herlinda and Her Son, the 1985 film from writer/director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, is not only a funny, warm gay romantic comedy, it also marks the first time that a Latin American film depicted gay relationships positively. I enjoyed this film...