Dona Herlinda and her Son [Doña Herlina Y Su Hijo] **** (1985, Arturo Meza, Marco Antonio Treviño, Leticia Lupersio, Guadalupe del Toro) – Classic Movie Review 13,624

The 1985 Mexican comedy film Dona Herlinda and her Son stars Guadalupe del Toro as a widowed mother who wants her doctor son (Marco Antonio Treviño) to marry, though he is enjoying a gay relationship with a music student (Arturo Meza).

Director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo’s 1985 Mexican comedy film Dona Herlinda and her Son [Doña Herlina Y Su Hijo] stars Arturo Meza, Marco Antonio Treviño, Leticia Lupersio, and Guadalupe del Toro.

A meddling but well-meaning Mexican widowed mother, Doña Herlinda (Guadalupe del Toro) wants her thirty-something bachelor doctor son Rodolfo (Marco Antonio Treviño) to marry, even though he is enjoying a loving, necessarily secretive gay relationship with younger music student Ramón (Arturo Meza).

The happy solution, apparently, is for him to take a wife (Leticia Lupersio) and for the boyfriend and mother also to live in the same house. Doña Herlinda of course pretends not to know about of the gay relationship between her son and Ramón, whom she loves like a second son.

Dona Herlinda and her Son is a sharp, witty and subversive adult social satire, accurately targeting machismo and hypocrisy, and the local conservative homophobic society, from clever, challenging writer-director Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.

Release: 18 June 1985.

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