Dona Herlinda and Her Son
{{Infobox film | name = Dona Herlinda and Her Son | image = File:Dona_Herlinda_y_su_hijo_film_poster.jpg | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | producer = Manuel Barbachano Ponce | writer = | screenplay = Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | story = | based_on = Doña Herlinda y su hijo by Jorge López Páez. | narrator = | starring = Arturo Meza Marco Treviño Guadalupe del Toro | music = | cinematography = Miguel Ehrenberg | editing = Luis Kelly | studio = | distributor = | released = | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Mexico | language = Spanish | budget = | gross = }} Dona Herlinda and Her Son''' (Spanish: Doña Herlinda y su hijo) is a 1985 Mexican film directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, starring Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño and Guadalupe del Toro. It was based on the homonymous short story written by Jorge López Páez. The plot follows Rodolfo, a young bachelor doctor, who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramón. Rodolfo's meddlesome but well intentioned mother, arranges for Ramón to move with them but also for Rodolfo to find a girlfriend and get married. Doña Herlinda and her son successfully premiered at various international festivals: the XV Festival New Directors - New Films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1986), the XXX London Film Festival (1986), and the Festival of Amiens (France) (1986), among others. Plot Ramón, a trim and handsome music student in his twenties, takes classes at the local conservatory in Guadalajara. He lives in a rundown overcrowded boarding house, where he practices on his French horn and gets together with his boyfriend Rodolfo, a thirty-something neurosurgeon with a successful career in pediatric medicine. Their relationship is loving and tender, but in the conservative homophobic society in which they live, their relationship must remain discreetly hidden behind closed doors. Their secret encounters always seem to be interrupted by visitors and phone calls by Rodolfo's meddlesome widower mother, Doña Herlinda. Doña Herlinda pretends that she knows nothing of the true nature of the relationship between her son and Ramón who she really dotes on like a second child. For the weekend, Doña Herlinda organizes a day trip to lake Chapala with Rodolfo and Ramón, but she has also invited Olga, a young independent woman, as a prospective girlfriend for Rodolfo. Ramón is dismayed and upset. This creates the first tension in the relationship between the two men, but they soon reconcile. Invited for dinner to Rodolfo's house, Doña Herlinda casually suggests to Ramón that he stays over, every night, and moves permanently with them- after all Rodolfo's bedroom is very big and his bed comfortable enough for the two of them. Ramón moves in and now not only Rodolfo is happy but Doña Herlinda and Ramón become even closer friends and companions. The sudden death of an uncle brings a surprise visit to town