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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543526902
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 2722
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/17/2008 Rating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
Under the Same Moon puts a human face--several very appealing faces--on the dilemma of Mexican 'illegals' living and working clandestinely in the United States and the loved ones back home they're supporting. Rosario, a young single parent, left her village four years ago and jumped the border to find work in Los Angeles; ever since, she and son Carlitos, now nine, haven't seen each other, but she faithfully calls him from the same street-corner pay phone every Sunday morning. When Rosario's mother--the boy's guardian--dies in her sleep, Carlitos taps into an impressive reservoir of street smarts and contrives his own border crossing. The border is just the first of many obstacles to a mother-and-child reunion--not least the fact that the only address the boy has for Rosario is a mental image of the corner she always phones from.
It's easy to take cheap shots at Patricia Riggen's feature-directing debut for tugging at the heartstrings, and certainly Under the Same Moon aspires to nothing like the political and psychological complexity of The Visitor, another film involving illegal immigrants that was released around the same time. But that misses the point, the nature of the mission, and the effectiveness with which Riggen carries it out. Carlitos encounters an almost Dickensian gallery of rogues and menaces, but that's allegorically appropriate for a crossover film (pun unavoidable) aimed at the general U.S. market as well as the Latino circuit. Nor is the movie guilty (as some have charged) of flogging an Anglo-bad/Latino-good poetics; there's opportunism as well as love among Carlitos's neighbors back home, and although Rosario is exploited and cheated by one of the two L.A. households she serves as a maid, the other family appears fond, even solicitous of her.
Riggen's casting is on the money: Kate del Castillo makes a heartbreakingly lovely Rosario, and Adrián Alonso, in addition to giving a gutsy performance as Carlitos, has a marvelous old-man's face the camera never tires of. Veteran actress María Rojo creates a shrewd portrait of a woman who arranges border crossings and observes her own brand of ethics while doing so, and Eugenio Derbez brings raffish charm to a crowd-pleasing role, a guest worker who, though himself two leaps ahead of 'La Migra,' becomes Carlitos's reluctant protector. America Ferrara (yes, 'Ugly Betty') contributes an unflattering cameo as a U.S. college student of Hispanic descent who doesn't understand Spanish. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - GOOD MESSAGE
WHEN I RECEIVED THIS I DID NOT REALIZE IT IS IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH SUB TITLES. AFTER I GOT OVER THE SHOCK, IT IS A VERY SPECIAL MOVIE, MAYBE IN THE SAME CATEGORY AS I AM DAVID. GOOD ACTING, AND LOTS OF LOVE .
Rating:  - Pirated video
Astoria Queens sold me a pirated version of Under the same moon. I've included a scanned image of the dvd and pointed out the red flags on the cover. When purchasing the DVD for the film don't purchase it from Astoria queens.
Rating: - Under The Same Moon
A very good movie that is a reality of what is really happening with those who cross the border to earn a better living. Some families have to struggle to live for long periods of time without seeing their loved ones and some never see them again.
Rating: - This is an outstanding movie.
Many people castigate illegal aliens as death to the American economy. This movie lets the viewer walk in the illegals' shoes for a few weeks. What a tear jerker this movie is, but I loved it dearly!
Rating: - great movie!
I love this film
and the price was very attractive compared to other on line stores!
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