It’s about time Eva Mendes (Last Night) started stepping up her acting game and that’s what seems to be happening in her latest movie, Girl in Progress, where the actress / model takes on the gritty role of playing a single mom who battles it out with her neglected teenaged daughter, played by newcomer Cierra Ramirez (Star and Stella Save The World).
Here’s the film’s synopsis: “Grace (Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad’s English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker (Eugenio Derbez), Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend, Tavita (Raini Rodriguez), to plot her shortcut to ‘adulthood.’ But as her misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age.”
This is the first time (I think) we’re seeing Mendes take on a serious leading role where she’s not just cast because of that Jennifer Lopez / Cindy Crawford look she has going on. Perhaps director Patricia Riggin (Lemonade Mouth) can take the actress to a respected level like when we saw Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl. Not to mention that the story, written by Hiram Martinez, promises to be one of those classic coming-of-age stories that mothers and daughters will be attracted to.
The film, which is distributed by Pantelion Films will be released on April 27th 2012. What do you think of the trailer for this movie? Would you go see it? Is this mother-daughter-struggle story played out or do you think seeing Eva Mendes in such a dramedy will boost its credibility?
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