La madrastra (2005 TV series)

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La madrastra
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Genre Telenovela
Created byArturo Moya Grau
Written by Liliana Abud (adaptation)
Directed by Rafael Banquells
Eric Morales
Jorge Édgar Ramírez
Starring Victoria Ruffo
César Évora
Eduardo Capetillo
Jacqueline Andere
Ana Martín
Cecilia Gabriela
Martha Julia
Guillermo García Cantú
René Casados
Sabine Moussier
Opening theme"Víveme" performed by Laura Pausini
Composer Jorge Avendaño Lührs
Country of originMexico
Original languageSpanish
No. of episodes120
+ 1 after-finale special
Production
Executive producer Salvador Mejía Alejandre
Production locationsMexico City, Mexico
CinematographyLino Adrián Gama Esquinca
Jesús Nájera Saro
EditorsMarco Antonio Rocha
Pablo Peralta
Running time41-44 minutes
Production company Televisa
Original release
Network Canal de las Estrellas
ReleaseFebruary 7 (2005-02-07) 
July 29, 2005 (2005-07-29)
Related
La madrastra (1981)
Vivir un poco (1985–1986)
Para toda la vida (1996)
Forever (1996)
¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler? (2014)
La madrastra (2022)

La madrastra (English: The Stepmother) [1] is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from Monday, February 7, 2005, through Friday, July 29, 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points. [2]

Contents

Starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, who last appeared together in 2000's Abrázame muy fuerte , along with Eduardo Capetillo, Jacqueline Andere, Ana Martín, Cecilia Gabriela, Martha Julia, Guillermo García Cantú, René Casados and Sabine Moussier, La madrastra tells the story of María, a woman who lost twenty years of her life after being falsely accused of murder and who returns to Mexico to exact revenge on her husband and friends who abandoned her and to see her beloved children once more.

La madrastra is fourth in a series of remakes of the 1981 Chilean production of the same name. The program aired five nights a week, Monday through Friday, at 9 pm for 25 weeks. A follow-up special, La madrastra: años después, aired shortly after the finale on Saturday, July 30, 2005.

From June 15 to August 21, 2015 Canal de las Estrellas broadcast reruns 12:00 replacing Rubí with Hasta que el dinero nos separe replacing it on August 24.

Plot

A terrible tragedy puts an end to a group of friends' pleasure trip. María (Victoria Ruffo) hears a gunshot; she finds her friend, Patricia (Montserrat Olivier), dead and, in her confusion, she recklessly picks up the gun. María is accused of the murder and sentenced to life in prison. Her husband, Esteban (César Évora), an important businessman, does not believe in her innocence; he divorces her upon returning to Mexico, buys the silence of those who went with them on the trip and tells his children that their mother died in an accident.

Twenty years later, María is released for good behavior and returns to Mexico seeking revenge. She is determined to discover the real culprit and confront Esteban, whom she now detests for having abandoned her to her fate. But what she wants most is to recover her two children, Héctor (Mauricio Aspe) and Estrella (Ana Layevska). The first thing María does upon arriving is to call together all those who participated in the fateful trip: Esteban; Servando (Lorenzo de Rodas), one of his partners; Demetrio (Guillermo García Cantú), the company's lawyer, and his wife, Daniela (Cecilia Gabriela); Bruno (René Casados), the company's other partner, and his wife, Fabiola (Sabine Moussier), and Esteban's two aunts, Carmela (Margarita Isabel) and Alba (Jacqueline Andere). Everyone is surprised to see her enter and María sows doubt and fear in them by informing them that, for twenty years, Patricia's real killer has lived among them.

María remarries Esteban to regain the affection of her children, but this will not be easy for her, since her children consider her a stepmother who has come to usurp the place of a dead mother whom they adore through the portrait of another woman and, in addition, she will have to deal with the intrigues of Esteban's aunts and partners; especially those of Fabiola, who has always been in love with Esteban and hates María. Moreover, María finds out that Esteban has a third son, Ángel (Miguel Ángel Biaggio), and he refuses to reveal who his mother is. Ángel is a sickly and insecure young man and María immediately accepts him and treats him with affection.

Little by little, María wins the love of her children without revealing the true bond that unites them. She helps Estrella to mature and stop being a superficial and fickle girl and to understand that of her two suitors, Carlos (Sergio Mayer) and Greco (José Luis Reséndez), the one who truly loves her is Greco, a good and humble young man; while Carlos is only interested in her money. Héctor is an arrogant young man to whom María teaches a great lesson when he meets Vivian (Michelle Vieth), who was María's prison companion, and falls in love with her. And thanks to María's support, Ángel becomes an optimistic and self-confident person.

However, María's biggest problem is Esteban. María finds herself at a cruel crossroads, because she has realized that she still loves her husband and he loves her. Now, her heart, hardened by twenty years of suffering, loneliness and abandonment, will have to find the strength to choose between the path of justice... and the path of forgiveness. [3]

Cast

Main

Also main

Recurring and guest stars

Broadcast history

La madrastra premiered on Televisa's El Canal de las Estrellas (XEW-TV) on Monday, February 7, 2005, at 9:00 PM, replacing Mujer de madera . The program aired weeknights at this time for one hour until Friday, July 15, 2005, when the telenovela was originally scheduled to end after a 115-episode run. However, after La madrastra became such a ratings success, Televisa ordered an additional ten episodes, bringing the episode total to 125. These final episodes were reduced from the normal hour length to thirty minutes each, [4] ceding the latter portion of the hour to La esposa virgen . The series finale aired on Friday, July 29, 2005, with the Años después special airing the following evening. It aired on Univision Monday March 21, 2005, 9pm/8c replacing Amor real . The last episode was broadcast Monday September 5, 2005, with La esposa virgen replacing it. The novela was then replaced with La esposa virgen, which expanded to take up the entire hour. Televisa later re-aired the program, with a new ending, in 2007.

Prior versions

La madrastra is a remake and is the fifth version of this telenovela to be broadcast. The four previous versions are:

DVD release

La madrastra was released to region 1 DVD on 21 March 2006. The series was considerably abridged in order to fit on the three double-sided DVD set, which contains 710 minutes of material. In addition to the abridged novela, the release also features the post-finale Años después special, as well as the original trailer for the novela, bloopers, and promotional photographs. The DVD release also has optional English subtitles.

La madrastra was featured in Mexican sketch comedy show La parodia, which spoofed the program in a parody called La madre ésta. The character of María was portrayed by Gaby Ruffo, younger sister of Victoria Ruffo, who plays María in the series.

The telenovela gained notice in the English-speaking United States in 2005 after being featured on numerous episodes of E! network's The Soup . Host Joel McHale often singled out Bruno for the amount of eyeliner that the character wore and "that bitch Alba" for what McHale described as her "crazy eye" that appeared to bulge noticeably larger than the other during particularly intense scenes. The Soup also mocked particular scenes of the novela, such as when Alba poisoned Rebeca with rat poison, causing the latter to flail and foam at the mouth before dramatically dying on the floor. McHale at one point emphatically stated that "I can think of fifteen network shows I understand that aren't this good!"

Awards and nominations

2006 TVyNovelas Awards

CategoryRecipientResult
Best Telenovela Salvador Mejía Alejandre Nominated
Best Actress Victoria Ruffo Nominated
Best Actor César Évora Nominated
Best Antagonist Actress Jacqueline Andere Nominated
Best Antagonist Actor Guillermo García Cantú Nominated
Best Leading Actress Ana Martín Nominated
Best Leading Actor Joaquín Cordero Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Margarita Isabel Nominated
Best Supporting Actor René Casados Nominated
Best Young Lead Actress Ana Layevska Nominated
Best Young Lead Actor José Luis Reséndez Nominated
Mauricio Aspe Won
Best Musical Theme "Víveme"
by Laura Pausini
Nominated
Best Direction Jorge Édgar Ramírez
Eric Morales
Won

2006 Bravo Awards

CategoryRecipientResult
Best Leading Actress Victoria Ruffo Won [5]

2006 Latin ACE Awards

CategoryRecipientResult
Best Scenic ProgramLa madrastraWon [6]
Best Actress Jacqueline Andere Won [6]
Most Outstanding Character Actress Sabine Moussier Won [6]

2010 TV Adicto Golden Awards

CategoryRecipientResult
Best Remake or Import of the DecadeLa madrastraWon

2020 TLN Awards

CategoryRecipientResult
Best Antagonist Jacqueline Andere Nominated [7]

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