The 1987 Mexican telenovela starring Adela Noriega and Thalía is titled Quinceañera.
The Televisa series centers on two teenage girls and their experiences with friendship, romance, family pressure, and social expectations. Adela Noriega and Thalía played the principal young characters, making the production an important early television role for both performers.
Although its title invokes the fifteenth-birthday celebration, the telenovela is a serialized drama rather than a guide to one specific ceremony. Its title connects the story to adolescence and the cultural expectations surrounding young women in Mexico.
The series is often distinguished from the 2006 independent film with the same title. The telenovela belongs to Mexican television in the late 1980s, while the film is an American independent drama released nearly two decades later.