Doce de Mãe (English: Sweet Mother) is a Brazilian comedy-drama television series starring Fernanda Montenegro.
The series is a co-production of Globo and Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, an independent production company. For her performance in the role of Picucha, Fernanda Montenegro was nominated to International Emmy Award for Best Actress. In 2013, Montenegro won the Award by the same role in the special shown in 2012, which gave rise to the series of the same name.
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Plot
Picucha (Fernanda Montenegro) may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
Her children are becoming less and less comfortable with the fact that she still lives alone in the house at her age. However, it is Picucha herself who surprises everyone when she makes the spontaneous decision to move to a nursing home.
She revolutionizes her new home by organizing gambling and concerts. It is there that she also has an idea about how to help her unemployed son—start a business that resells the benefits normally reserved for the elderly, such as parking places and preferential customer service. However, despite her lively lifestyle there, Picucha decides to leave the home and return to her family, thereby starting a sequence of living at her children's houses.
In addition to all of these activities, this indefatigable woman still needs to address other issues such as the suspicion that her late husband had a daughter out of wedlock. She not only solves the mystery but also discovers that she feels a motherly love for the young girl.
Cast
Main
Fernanda Montenegro as Maria Izabel "Picucha" de Souza
Marco Ricca as Silvio de Souza
Louise Cardoso as Elaine de Souza
Matheus Nachtergaele as Fernando de Souza
Mariana Lima as Suzana de Souza
Daniel de Oliveira as Jesus Medeiros
Drica Moraes as Rosalinda Bauer
Recurring
Francisco Cuoco as Toninho and Fortunato
Otávio Augusto as Júlio
Emiliano Queiroz as Alfredinho
Elisa Volpatto as Carolina
Letícia Sampaio as Isaurinha
Áurea Baptista as Florinha
Camilla Amado as Dora
Tarcísio Filho as Alberto
Irene Brietzke as Carlinda
Wandi Doratiotto as Flávio
Evandro Soldatelli as Roberto
Guest
Sophie Charlotte as Ritinha
Lázaro Ramos as Francis Farme
Augusto Madeira as Gilberto
Sérgio Mamberti as Chatonildo
Armando Babaioff as Artur
See too
Doce de Mãe (TV movie)