Spanglish | 
| Director: James L. Brooks
Actors: Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  208 reviews
Sales Rank: 12001
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 04852
ISBN: 1404954996
UPC: 043396048522
EAN: 9781404954991
ASIN: B0007OCG56
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2004
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 (Tea 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
Product Description
JOHN CLASKY IS A DEVOTED DAD WHOSE SKILLS AS A CHEF HAVE AFFORDED HIS FAMILY A VERY UPSCALE LIFE. WHEN FLOR, THEIR NEW HOUSEKEEPER AND HER DAUGHTER MOVE IN WITH THE CLASKY'S FOR THE SUMMER, FLOR HAS TO FIGHT FOR HER DAUGHTER'S SOUL AS SHE DISCOVERS THAT LIFE IN A NEW COUNTRY IS PERILOUS.
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 Touching Drama, Not Typical Adam Sandler Movie June 20, 2009
Dr. Jane Branam (Charlotte NC)
This is one of my favorite movies. It is a drama, not the slapstick type of Adam Sandler movie that you expect. It looks at culture, maternal love, being a good father while having a demanding career and how some children have to earn their parent's love, rather than getting the unconditional love they deserve. You will just hate how the mother treats her daughter in this movie, and love how the Latina housekeeper nurtures her. Don't let this movie get away; it is a heartwarming must see movie. Power Path to Love
 Spanglish May 3, 2009
Theresa Dimaulo (Rutherford, NJ)
This movie prooves how in America speak english. Fortunately she was smart enough to learn the language.
Spanglish March 31, 2009
Carl F. Seitz (Las Vegas, NV)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a great movie. We have watched it many times & still enjoy it.
 I expected much better from James L. Brooks January 12, 2009
E. Woodard (Spokane, WA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I couldn't stand more than twenty minutes of this film. What has happened to James L. Brooks? He has created two of my favorite comedies (Real Life and Broadcast News) and possibly the best show ever on TV (The Simpsons), but this movie was awful. First of all, the script was hackneyed and the characters were one dimensional. I knew who each character was, and I could see the arc of the entire film, in ten minutes. Second, the directing was ham handed. The reactions shots were lengthy, obvious and terrible. Third, the acting was ATROCIOUS. I have never seen a person try as hard to act neurotic at Tea Leoni. Cloris Leachman as the mom was over-the-top wacky, and the "fun" moments suffered the fate of almost all "fun" moments in film: you could literally see the quotation marks around "fun." Everyone look at how much "fun" this is. See my smile? I'm having "fun". I'm really "letting myself go." Contrasting with this was Adam Sandler, who must have been asked to provide a counterbalance to the neurotic hilarity, so he had his entire face botoxed and got voice lessons from Ben Stein. Wooden. Hey, maybe this movie got really good after the first twenty minutes. If so, I would consider it a better comeback than Jesus on Pentecost.
Great Movie that is extremely under-appreciated December 5, 2008
Joshua Harter
The movie is based on Christina Moreno, and her mother, Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), who flee Mexico when Christina is six to search for a better life. Flor and her young daughter travel to Los Angeles to live with Flor's cousin, who helps Flor find paying jobs, and an apartment. She lives a life of comfort in a community which clearly mirrors her past life in Mexico. Finally, after years of comfort, she steps out into what they call "a foreign land". With the help of her cousin, Flor finds a maid job at the home of John Clasky (Adam Sandler), and his wife Deborah (Tea Leoni). John and Deborah also have two children, Bernice and Georgie, who both seem to have taken a very laid back approach to life, mirroring their father. Also joining the family is Deborah's mother, Evelyn Wright (Cloris Leachman), who takes a back seat to the antics and comes into play at key moments. It seems that at all times, someone in the movie is pulling another person, striving for perfection. Flor is very protective, and very strict with her daughter, attempting to bring her up right besides the fact that Christina has been thrown into this foreign American culture. While they are living with the Clasky's, Flor begins to realize that the Clasky's and their lifestyle is having a great impact on Christina, and interfering with Flor's attempts at keeping Christina close with her heritage and culture while remaining the only true influence in her daughter's life. The movie culminates at the end with both John and Flor confessing their love for each other, but doing nothing about it. Flor then proceeds to quit her job with the Clasky's severing her ties with the "outside world". The movie is mostly based around John, Deborah, Flor, and the struggles they have raising their families in two drastically different ways.
Overall, Spanglish is everything a true movie fan would want; comedy, romance, developed characters, and more life lessons than you could ask for.
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