Girl in Progress (2012)

As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

Director:

Patricia Riggen

Writer:

Hiram Martinez (screenplay)

Stars:

Eva Mendes, Matthew Modine, Cierra Ramirez

6 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Eva Mendes	...	Grace
Matthew Modine	...	Dr. Harford
Cierra Ramirez	...	Ansiedad
Patricia Arquette	...	Ms. Armstrong
Eugenio Derbez	...	Mission Impossible
Raini Rodriguez	...	Tavita
Russell Peters	...	Emile
Landon Liboiron	...	Trevor
Brenna O'Brien	...	Valerie
Ana Maria Estrada	...	Tavita's Mom
Kendall Cross	...	Alice Harford
Dana Woods	...	Gilliam (as Dana Michael Woods)
Robin Douglas	...	Olga
Jocelyne Loewen	...	Becky
Blu Mankuma	...	Principal

Storyline

As single mom Grace juggles work, bills, and her affair with a married doctor, her daughter, Ansiedad, plots a shortcut to adulthood after finding inspiration in the coming-of-age stories she's reading for school.

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Plot Keywords:

coming of age | maturation | single parent | teenage daughter | female protagonist | 

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Taglines:

Lessons in motherhood. Taught by a Kid.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content including crude references, and drinking - all involving teens

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

10 August 2012 (Bulgaria)

Also Known As:

Ansiedad

Filming Locations:

Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$1,384,078 (USA) (11 May 2012)

Gross:

$2,594,878 (USA) (15 June 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Anxiety Productions, Latitude Entertainment, Pantelion Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

At the party Grace is drinking a beer, but her bottle is empty.

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Quotes

Ansiedad: By the way, I'll need to borrow your sister's bike to establish my plucky innocence.

User Reviews

What a beautiful, sensitive change!

Girl in _Progress is actually a very simple, straightforward story about a young girl doing her best to cope with her own adolescence as well as her not-much-older mother who, in actual fact, is doing almost the same thing. Due to her history (harsh, non-understanding mother), Grace (Eva Mendes), is desperately trying to find the love that she didn't get when she was Amiestad's age - and why shouldn't she?

I suspect that this movie is a lot closer to real life than a lot of viewers realise. Teenagers forget that their parents have given them the very best years of their lives form the time they were born right up to the time they think they know everything - and then some more! Fortunately Amiestad realises this a lot sooner than many kids her age but not before hurting her bet friend unforgivably (even though her best friend DOES forgive her!)

In this film, mother is only about 34 or 35 and still a beautiful woman who has the very same needs as her daughter - although her daughter (initially) totally fails to recognise that fact. Like many teenagers, she thinks that the world revolves around her - but it doesn't and, at least in this movie, she finds out before it's too late.

I would suggest that this should be compulsory viewing for all adolescent kids but I fear that, in a lot of cases, they would shrug their shoulders and just say, "Whatever!"

As Ned Kelly said when told he was to be hanged at ten o'clock the next morning, "Such is life!"