Quisiera Ser Hombre

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Quisiera Ser Hombre
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Poster of the movie
Directed byAbel Salazar
Produced byCarlos Amador
Starring Lucero
Guillermo Capetillo
Carlos Riquelme
Distributed byTelecine
Release date
  • 1989 (1989)
Running time
90 minutes
Country Mexico
Language Spanish

Quisiera ser hombre (in English: I Wish I Was A Man) is a Mexican motion picture released in 1989. Many people[ who? ] think, in a good way, this film helped indirectly to think about homosexuality and travestism in teenagers.

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Manuela (Lucerito) has a lot of difficulties to get work as a fashion designer, since the world of "haute couture" is preferred by men. She decides to change her appearance in order to have luck, so Manuela becomes Manuelito. Immediately find a job as an assistant of Miguel (Guillermo Capetillo), who is also a designer. Miguel offers to share his department, and Manuelito agrees because she/he doesn't have a place to live. This raises a number of funny situations, especially when Miguel is alarmed to know that he is falling in love with his "male friend"..

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