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Byline: John Powers
Crowd pleasers don't come more sweet-natured than Quinceanera, which took top prize at this year's Sundance. Set in L.A.'s Echo Park, it centers on Magdalena (Emily Rios), a Mexican-American
girl who's approaching her quinceanera, the fifteenth-birthday party that marks coming-of-age. But when she gets pregnant, she has to move in with her great-uncle Tomas (Chalo Gonzalez) and her cousin Carlos (Jesse Garcia), a tough young cholo who's sleeping with the well-off gay couple who own their building. Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, the movie is an Angeleno riff on Britain's gritty "kitchen sink" dramas. But while Quinceanera captures social truths ...