Doña Herlinda and Her Son

1985 • Directed by

Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Comedy, Romance

From the land of the margarita, the taco and the macho

A manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman.