![]() Ansiedad is eager to get away from her embarrassingly immature mother. Riggen (whose 2007 Under the Same Moon was a critical darling) seems to be aiming for an update of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, but the movie plays more like a Latina spin on Gilmore Girls, with a ditzier Lorelai and a more resentful Rory. In Ansiedad’s mind, Grace is a terrible mother, more concerned with her own love life than Ansiedad’s chess tournaments and academic achievements. ( WATCH: 20 Movies We’re Looking Forward to in 2012) Grace has hopes, but Ansiedad, long witness as to her mother’s rocky romantic life, is snottily dismissive. Harford (Matthew Modine) whose house she cleans. She’s always sleeping with someone, at present the married, obviously heartless gynecologist, Dr. Cast out by her own mother years ago, Grace supports her daughter by working double shifts as a housemaid and as a waitress at a crab shack. Mendes plays Grace, who got pregnant at 17 with Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez). She isn’t furthering her career with her turn in the sweet but wholly predictable, minor movie like Patricia Riggen’s Girl in Progress. It’s a single mama drama. ![]() So why isn’t she a star with a career on the boil? She smoldered like Sophia Loren and displayed a likeable, game manner in both the light comedy Hitch and Werner Herzog’s darkly comic The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call-New Orleans. ![]() She’s been part of a mega-franchise and appeared in two of the Fast and Furious movies. Follow Mendes made a striking first impression in 2001’s Training Day, playing bad cop Denzel Washington’s girlfriend, rising naked and gorgeous from a rumpled bed.
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