Girl in Progress

You’ll have to forgive Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) for being anxious. For one thing, her name literally means “anxiety.” For another, she’s smart, sophisticated—and the only adult in her single-parent/only-child home. While her mother Grace (Eva Mendes) struggles to balance the responsibilities of motherhood (working two jobs to pay her daughter’s tuition) with her affair with a married man, it’s teenager Ansiedad who washes the dishes, scrubs the toilet and removes her sleeping mother’s pumps after a late night out. More often than not, Ansiedad eats dinner alone, dunking hot dog buns into a glass of bad coffee....  read more