The original Spanish title of the 2006 American film is Quinceañera.
The title uses the Spanish term for the girl or celebration associated with a fifteenth birthday. The film keeps the Spanish title even though it was made in the United States and includes substantial English-language dialogue.
Directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, the movie follows Magdalena in East Los Angeles. Her expected celebration becomes the setting for a story about pregnancy, religious and family expectations, acceptance, and the different forms a family can take.
The title is sometimes typed as “Quinceanera” when a keyboard lacks the ñ, but that is an unaccented rendering rather than a different film. It is also distinct from the 1987 Mexican telenovela Quinceañera, which shares the title but has a different plot, format, cast, and release year.