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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404954991
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404954996
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 05, 2005
Running Time: 131 minutes
Sales Rank: 5809
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2004
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Description:
John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have afforded his family (T=E9a Leoni, Cloris Leachman) a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new housekeeper, Flor (Paz Vega), who has recently immigrated to L.A. from Mexico, and is trying to find a better life for her remarkable daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), who is rapidly embracing the American way of life. When Flor and Cristina move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous...especially when you're being embraced by an affluent, eccentric American family.
Amazon.com:
Anyone familiar with writer/director James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) knows the man has a real feel for interesting women and a disarming way with a one-liner. The main women in Spanglish are Deborah Clasky (Téa Leoni), a moneyed SoCal mom, and non-English speaking Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), the beautiful Latina whom Deborah hires as a housekeeper. The one-liners, some of them amusing, are everywhere. Brooks provides an intriguing set-up for the two women to butt heads--Deborah's pudgy daughter Bernice (Sarah Steele) needs the affection at which Flor excels, while Flor's clever, bi-lingual daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) is enamored of the financial advantages Deborah can provide--then proceeds to make Deborah so hatefully ignorant you can't imagine why her neuroses are the main thrust of the film. And Deborah's celebrated chef husband John (Adam Sandler, way over his head) is such a perfect parent he doesn't seem human--what happened to the Brooks who had Terms of Endearment mom Debra Winger turn to her scowling little boy and grunt 'Don't make me hit you in the street'? Cloris Leachman has a nifty supporting role as Deborah's boozy, ex-jazz singer mother, but it's only one offbeat chord in an earnest film that hits all the wrong notes. --Steve Wiecking
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Rating:  - This was a gift :)
I love this film I just hope my auntie enjoyed it as much as I did...
Rating:  - Suprised and loved it
This is a very good movie...I bought it and still watch it every now and then. The little girl narrating the film is amazing...and this is supposedly her first film. Paz Vega is a force of nature in her beauty and grace...no one in American film compares to her. Leoni plays a character that you just have to hate, but she pulls it off in a way that allows you to pity her at times. No one suffers like Adam Sandler....suprisingly well played by him. This is a funny and dramatic study of the culture collide.
Rating:  - Don't let the name mislead you
James L. Brooks intended to do a comedy here but instead ended up with a human drama about family relations and culture clash. And yes, some situations are funny. Watch it, most probably you will like it too.
Rating: - Gibberish
To describe this film as a "chick flick" is to offend chicks everywhere. While it is clearly aimed at the adult, female, box of tissues, slumber party set - I cherish the notion that these individuals are far too smart and with it to be taken in by such twaddle. With the exception of Adam Sandler, (who couldn't act his age, much less act in a movie), the cast is excellent - so what's the problem? Primarily it's that Spanglish never settles in on an approach, a pitch, a point of view. At times it attempts, and misses, comedy. At other moments it seems to want to be taken seriously as social commentary, which is laughable. It comes closest to finding its heart in the relationship between mother and daughter, but frequently these scenes are glib and manipulative. In a case like this, the blame must be laid at the director's feet, and the author of the abominable screenplay.
These characters are not drawn; they're cut out of paper. Deborah, in particular, played brilliantly by Tea Leoni, is so shrill and extreme that she quickly becomes a caricature, severely undermining the picture's chances of success. John, played by Sandler, is certainly the most low key chef in the universe, he is so passive and uninteresting that one wonders how he could make milk toast, much less gourmet meals. Cloris Leachman is brilliant as always - but it's never a good sign when a minor character threatens to walk away with a movie. Compounding these egregious flaws, Spanglish is yet another SoCal film ... Read More
Rating: - one of adam sandler's best. awesome movie.
i don't care if you normally only watch typical adam sandler movies. i don't care if you don't normally watch more serious films. this film is fantastic. it's practically more about Paz Vega's character than adam sandler's. it's about family, parenting. it's got a perfect blend of humor & seriousness. must buy for how cheap it is.
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