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Spanglish
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by Sony Pictures
Sales Rank: 6501
Price: $8.49
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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 perilousespecially when you're being embraced by an affluent, eccentric American family.
Viewer Reviews
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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