Quinceañera (English title: Sweet 15) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1987. Quinceañera was the first telenovela to talk about substance abuse, date rape and gangs, and is considered to be the first telenovela made in Mexico for teenagers.
Quinceañera was named by the Associated Press as one of the 10 most influential telenovelas ever to air in Latin America, and Univision tlnovelas viewers named it one of their all-time favorite Mexican telenovelas. In 2010, Quinceañera was placed #7 on the People en Español's "20 Best Telenovelas" list, and in 2012, Terra named it as one of the 50 best telenovelas of all-time.
The telenovela stars Adela Noriega, Thalía, Blanca Sánchez and Jorge Lavat.
Contents
Plot
Maricruz (Adela Noriega) and Beatriz (Thalía) are classmates and best friends. Maricruz is from a working-class family, while Beatriz's is very wealthy. They are both 14 and excited about their quinceañera parties and becoming women.
Mechanic's apprentice Pancho (Ernesto Laguardia) and gang tough Memo (Sebastian Ligarde) are attracted to Maricruz. Maricruz is immediately disgusted by Memo and eventually accepts Pancho's love. Memo attacks Maricruz; she faints before he can rape her, but he lets her believe he did rape her. She feels violated, defiled, and unworthy of Pancho and believes he won't want her now.
At the same time, Maricruz's brother Gerardo (Rafael Rojas) starts dating Beatriz when their mother pressures her children to raise their social class. When Beatriz becomes pregnant, her family supports her after their initial horror. Both girls realize that the passage to womanhood was not what they expected.
Cast
Main
Adela Noriega as Maricruz Fernández Sarcoser
Thalía as Beatriz Villanueva Contreras
Blanca Sánchez as Ana María Contreras de Villanueva
Jorge Lavat as Roberto Villanueva
Recurring
Armando Araiza as "El Chato"
Martha Aura as Gertrudis
Luis Bayardo as Ramón Fernández
Roberto Ballesteros as Antonio
Julieta Bracho as Mrs. Palmira
Silvia Caos as Consuelo
Fernando Ciangherotti as Sergio Iturralde Contreras
Julieta Egurrola as Carmen Sarcoser de Fernández
Ana Bertha Espín as Estela
Omar Fierro as Arturo
Gabriel as "El Chamo"
Enrique Gilabert as Mr. Villarreal
Alejandra Gollas as Adriana Fernández Sarcoser
Rosario Granados as Rosalía Viuda de Contreras
Ernesto Laguardia as Pancho
Sebastian Ligarde as Guillermo "Memo" López
Ricardo D'Loera as Lawyer Espinoza
Abraham Méndez as Ernesto
Alicia Montoya as Licha
Inés Morales as Elvira Contreras Viuda de Iturralde
Lucha Moreno as Virginia Campos
Pancho Muller as Andrés "Toluco" López
Soundtrack
Track listing
Timbiriche – "Quinceañera (instrumental)"
Pandora – "Ella se llenó de amor"
Bryan Adams – "Native Son"
Vangelis – "To the Unknown Man"
Manuel Mijares – "El rey de la noche (instrumental)"
Miguel Mateos – "Cuando seas grande"
Michael Jackson – "Bad"
Luis Miguel – "Cuando calienta el sol (instrumental)"
Stevie Wonder – "I Just Called to Say I Love You (instrumental)"
Pink Floyd – "Terminal Frost (instrumental)"
Pandora – "Tu cariño"
Miguel Mateos – "Cuando seas grande"
W.A.S.P. - "Wild Child"
Other versions
Televisa made a remake of Quinceañera named Primer amor, a mil por hora in 2000, starring Kuno Becker, Anahí and Mauricio Islas, and a second remake, Miss XV, in 2012, starring Paulina Goto, Natasha Dupeyrón, Eleazar Gómez, Yago Muñoz, Jack Duarte and Macarena Achaga, both produced by Pedro Damián.