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Quinceañera (2006)

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Magdalena is 14 and anxiously awaiting her 15th birthday where she'll celebrate her quinceanara. Her world starts to crumble when she discovers her pregnancy after not being able to fit in her gown for her quinceanara. Soon, she's kicked out of her home, abandoned by her family, and abandoned by her baby's father. Magdalena is then taken in by her great-granduncle, Tomas and her gay, often-in-trouble cousin, Carlos. There she finds a new family and life. Written by R2k443

In Echo Park, Los Angeles, the teenager Eileen May Garcia has a dream fifteen years old party. Her cousin Magdalena is fourteen years old and will be the next in the family to celebrate the "Quinceañera". However, her father is the local preacher and security guard and cannot afford and expensive party and Magdalena will wear her cousin's dress and dreams on arriving in a limousine like Eileen did. However, her dreams are shattered when she finds that she is pregnant of her boyfriend Herman, in spite of being virgin. Her father expels her from her home and she moves to the house of her uncle Tomas Alvarez, who lodges his troublemaker gay nephew Carlos in his house, and the trio raises family bonds. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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