Soñadoras ("Dreamers") is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa that ran from 1998 to 1999 about a group of four (later five) girls attending the prestigious high school "Generacion 2000".
Soñadoras contains examples of:
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: Jacqueline de la Peña
- Broken Pedestal: Discovering her father is a drug lord makes Jacqueline lose all admiration she once had for him
- Brutal Honesty: Ana doesn´t mince words when it comes to other people´s flaws and mistakes.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Ana is initially cold and standofish, due to personal problems and the fact that she and her father tend to move around a lot, preventing her from forming long-lasting friendships. She eventually eases up by befriending Lucia and the other girls.
- Drugs Are Bad: The underlying theme of the telenovela. All characters end up bad of do bad things under the influence of drugs.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being a sociopathic drug lord, Eugenio clearly loves his daughter Jacqueline and will do anything to make her happy, going so far as to try to leave the drug trafficking business after she became addicted to drugs, only remaining after being reminded that the penalty for leaving is death
- "Fawlty Towers" Plot: Julieta´s lie of being a rich girl creates a snowball of lies. What starts as a simple lie culminates in an elaborate charade that includes hiring a couple of actors to be her "parents", passing her family as servants and living in an comfy apartment paid by her best friend´s father.
- Gold Digger: Julieta intends to marry a much older (and divorced) man only for his money, and intends to go through it until the very last second when her friend Lucia convinces to leave the altar in exchange for Lucia´s father giving her an apartment with luxuries.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Emilia´s boyfriend Enrique has cancer, and all of her friends and many people know this, except her. It´s only after a misunderstanding that he tells her the truth.
- Lonely Rich Kid: Ruben´s father is the one of the richest men of Mexico, and he´s often abroad running his business´ much to Ruben´s frustration. Predictably, the relationship between them is strained and Ruben fills the void with drugs.
- Mock Millionaire: Julieta pretends to come from a rich, influential family, when in reality she lives in a "multifamiliar" and takes the bus to move around.
- Nice to the Waiter: Averted. Ruben is definitively NOT nice to the hired help, being dismissive at best, rude at worst. This extends to waiters and other people in service jobs, the most notable example being Beto.
- Secret-Keeper: Lucia and Enrique are the only two people from Julieta´s circle of friends that know that she doesn´t come from rich family, but from a middle-to-low class one.
- Shrinking Violet: Lucia is very timid and childish, and her classmates initially take advantage of this.
- Teacher/Student Romance: José Luis and Jacqueline develop one, more due to circumstances than out of genuine affection on Jose Luis´ part. While José Luis genuinely became fond of her, it becomes abundantly clear once the truth about Fernanda's marriage to Eugenio is discovered, that he loves Fernanda more than anyone and breaks up with Jacqueline as a result.
- Vicariously Ambitious: Nancy forces her daughter Emilia to attend singing lessons in order to vicariously live her frustrated dreams of being a famous singer. The fact that Emilia doesn´t want to be a singer (and skips lessons behind her back) and that she has no talent for it convinces her mother to drop the idea
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