Bellyfruit (1999)
86 min
Three very different Los Angeles teenage girls find themselves pregnant and dealing with poverty, drugs and confusion. Shanika (Tamara LaSeon Bass) has a drug addict for a mother and is currently living in a foster home. Araceley (Tonatzin Mondragon) tries living with her loser and broke boyfriend after her parents kick her out of their house out of shame. Tina (Keely Vint), born to a teenage mother herself, isn't sure who the father of her child is.
- Release date
- April 16, 1999
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Tonatzin Mondragon as Aracely
- Kelly Vint Castro as Christina
- Tamara Bass as Shanika
- Michael Peña as Oscar
- Bonnie Dickenson as Diane
- T.E. Russell as Damon
- Kimberly Scott as Carmen Duncan
- Yareli Arizmendi as Mrs. Vasquez
- Roberto Alvarez as Lucky
- Natanya Ross as Kelly
Crew
- Kerri Green · Director
- Maria Bernhard · Writer
- Susannah Blinkoff · Writer
- Janet Borrus · Writer
- Kerri Green · Writer
- Robert Bauer · Producer
- Jay Gruska · Composer
- Peter Calvin · Cinematographer
- Carmel Juneau · Editor
- Elizabeth Boykewich · Casting director
- Regina O'Brian · Production designer
- Regina O'Brien · Production designer