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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Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, 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: COLD04852D
ISBN: 1404954996
UPC: 043396048522
EAN: 9781404954991
ASIN: B0007OCG56
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 2004
Release Date: April 5, 2005
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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 claskys for the summer flor has to fight for her daughters soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/25/2006 Starring: Adam Sandler Paz Vega Run time: 131 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: James L Brooks
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 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.
 This was a gift :) December 2, 2008
M. Hewitt (Aston Ingham, England)
I love this film I just hope my auntie enjoyed it as much as I did...
Suprised and loved it October 10, 2008
Barry A. Boseman (Baltimore, MD)
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.
 Don't let the name mislead you October 2, 2008
M. E. Varela (San Juan, PR)
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.
Gibberish August 26, 2008
El Lagarto (Ambler, PA)
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 where folks in the picture biz examine their own neighborhoods and lifestyle - are these guys really so lazy - or narcissistic - that they won't leave the state? An excellent performance by Sarah Steeles helps, as does an absolute star turn by Shelbie Bruce, but not enough to make sense of this hodgepodge.
What saves Spanglish from the dustbin of cinema is an Oscar-caliber performance by the enchanting Paz Vega, who first won me over in 10 Items or Less. Vega does more with reaction takes and other forms of non-verbal communication than all the other actors put together. Besides being crazy beautiful, she has that ability to express a broad range of emotions easily, casually. I'm told that when they made this film Vega did not even speak English, and learned her lines phonetically. If true, her achievement is even more remarkable. As a showcase for Paz Vega, Spanglish is worth your time; she is nothing short of brilliant. Beyond that, it's just another grab bag of shopworn SoCal cliches, two-dimensional stereotypes, and cheesy attempts to tug on your heartstrings without earning the right.
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