All She Can
Benavides Born
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Maya Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Corina Calderon | |
Performer: | Jeremy Ray Valdez, Joseph Julian Soria & Julio Cedillo | |
Directed by | Amy Wendel |
Entertainment Reviews:
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 110
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Approaches the coming-of-age story of the Chicana girl unwilling to reproduce "her" culture without putting up a fight developing some unconventional threads.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 1.5/5 --
The movie bucks Hollywood norms without quite knowing what to put in their place.
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New York Times
The film veers into morality play and, finally, inspirational uplift.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
A teenager looking to make something of herself takes a potentially dangerous path in this independent drama. Luz Garcia (Corina Calderon) was born and raised in Benavides, a small Texas town not far from the Mexican border. Benavides is a city in decline, and with few job prospects at home, Luz wants to go to college now that she's soon to graduate from high school. Her family doesn't have the money for higher education, so Luz concentrates on her skills as a weight lifter, hoping she can hone her skills to a point where she might win a scholarship. Luz's coach (Julio Cesar Cedillo) thinks she has potential, but insists she needs to build her strength carefully; her boyfriend Raynaldo (Jeremy Ray Valdez), however, urges her to take a more aggressive approach to training, and she begins using steroids in hopes of gaining an edge that will earn her a scholarship to the University of Texas. BENAVIDES BORN (aka ALL SHE CAN) was the first feature film from director Amy Wendel.