Spanglish (2004)

Directed by

James L. Brooks

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 1,399 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican mother and daughter move to Los Angeles for a better life. The mother works as a housekeeper for a talented chef and his unstable wife, and their lives become intertwined.

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What happens

Spanglish is a 2004 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by James L. Brooks, and starring Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, and Cloris Leachman. In the film, Cristina Moreno, a Mexican-born Princeton candidate, writes about a significant year in her life when her mother Flor, a woman who left Mexico with her for a better life in America, worked for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife. The film was released in the United States on December 17, 2004, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It was a box-office bomb, grossing $55 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget. The film received mixed reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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