Sweet 15 is a 1990 American made-for-television family drama film directed by Victoria Hochberg and starring Karla Montana, Panchito Gómez, Jerry Stiller, and Tony Plana.

[1] The plot concerns a fourteen-year-old girl whose dreams of having a perfect quinceañera are suddenly halted when she realizes that her family is residing in the United States illegally.

[1] A WonderWorks film produced by PBS, is commonly shown in Spanish classes all over the country to teach about Hispanic culture.

[citation needed] Hochberg received the 1990 Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in directing, special class, for her work on Sweet 15.

They are a working-class family, and their hardworking father, Samuel, is the operations manager of a steel mill that makes chain link fences, where he uses the fake name "Arturo Montoya".

Her parents tell her that she may have to postpone it, because of financial problems, when in reality, they are not legal citizens, and they need to save money in case Samuel's boss, Mr. Waterman finds out and he is left jobless.