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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
tenderwryromanticfamily-centeredbittersweetmildly comedicgentle
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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