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Escuela para suegras (1958)

Escuela para suegras poster
Directed by
Gilberto Martínez Solares
Genre
comedy film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to deal with overbearing mothers-in-law. He goes to a school that teaches them how to behave.

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What happens

Escuela para suegras ("School for Mothers-in-law") is a 1958 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Germán Valdés «Tin-Tan», Martha Mijares, Blanca de Castejón, and Prudencia Grifell. It was adapted from a screenplay by the Argentine dramatist and poet Sixto Pondal Ríos. This film is also considered a parody of Escuela para vagabundos (1955), from Pedro Infante. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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