Doce de Mãe

Doce de Mãe

Cover of the DVD release
Written by Jorge Furtado
Ana Luiza Azevedo
Miguel da Costa Franco
Directed by Ana Luiza Azevedo
Jorge Furtado
Starring Fernanda Montenegro
Mirna Spritzer
Mariana Lima
Marco Ricca
Matheus Nachtergaele
Daniel de Oliveira
Louise Cardoso
Theme music composer Maurício Nader
Country of origin Brazil
Original language(s) Portuguese
Production
Cinematography Alex Senambi
Running time 70 minutes
Production company(s) Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre
Release
Original network Rede Globo
Original release December 27, 2012

Doce de Mãe (English: Sweet Mother) is a television film and a Brazilian year-end special produced by Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre and broadcast by Rede Globo on December 27, 2012. It was written and directed by Jorge Furtado and Ana Luiza Azevedo, and Fernanda Montenegro stars as Dona Picucha.

Plot

Picucha (Fernanda Montenegro) may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.

Her children are becoming less and less comfortable with the fact that she still lives alone in the house at her age. However, it is Picucha herself who surprises everyone when she makes the spontaneous decision to move to a nursing home.

She revolutionizes her new home by organizing gambling and concerts. It is there that she also has an idea about how to help her unemployed son—start a business that resells the benefits normally reserved for the elderly, such as parking places and preferential customer service. However, despite her lively lifestyle there, Picucha decides to leave the home and return to her family, thereby starting a sequence of living at her children’s houses.

In addition to all of these activities, this indefatigable woman still needs to address other issues such as the suspicion that her late husband had a daughter out of wedlock. She not only solves the mystery but also discovers that she feels a motherly love for the young girl.[1]

Cast

Awards

Year Group Award Nominee Result
2013 International Emmy Awards Best Performance by an Actress Fernanda Montenegro Won

See too

References

  1. ↑ "Sweet Mother". Globo TV International. Archived from the original on 2015-02-06.


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