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Spanglish - DVD

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Spanglish

List Price: $14.94    Our Price: $9.99

DVD - 05 April, 2005
Sony Pictures
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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Director: James L. Brooks

Number of Media: 1
Features:

  • AC-3
  • Closed-captioned
  • Color
  • Dolby
  • Dubbed
  • DVD-Video
  • Subtitled
  • Widescreen
  • NTSC

Related Areas: Adult Language, Biting, Bittersweet, Class Differences, Color, Comedies, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Comedy Video, Comedy of Manners, Crumbling Marriages, Culture Clash, Domestic Comedy, Earnest, English, Families in Crisis, Feature, Feature Film Comedy, Feature Film-comedy, Intimate

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DVD Description

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


Customer Reviews

Almost exceptional.

Spanglish starring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni is a serious and funny film about people's insecurities and there need to be loved. The only thing wrong with this film is the long dialogue, the characters speak too wordy and the scenes are too dragged out, the editor needed to cut the scenes better. The cast is quite good, an impressive performance by Sandler but who really steals the show is Leoni, her comic timing and flawless delivery is the main reason to watch this film. Cloris Leachman and Pas Vega are wonderful as well, defintely one to see, enjoy!


Don't Be Daunted By Seemingly Boring or Negative Things; This Film is a Masterpiece

I would like to express my dismay at seeing the measly 3.5 stars this film has received. It is witty, hilarious, touching, and beautiful. Yes, it has comedy actors Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni. Yes, the description sounds bland and like it will shove cultural points at you and yes, it seems like it might just be a chick flick.

All of these things couldn't be more wrong. Spanglish may not be a blockbuster hit but then, Click was, so who's to judge for godssake. You can't always trust the multitudes on these things.

With a smart and funny spirit, Spanglish teaches the importance of family and the gorgeous points of a real woman without a hint of preaching. Somehow...there's no way to get across how this is a film for people of all kinds and how surprising it is in its uniqueness, so I just wanted to give my opinion and add another 5 stars for Spanglish.


Uugghh.

I tried to enjoy this film but could not at all! I honestly do not see why this movie got such high ratings, including the two thumbs up from Ebert and Roeper.

This movie made no sense to me. It was mildly entertaining but in the end I saw no character growth whatsoever. Everyone stayed the same. Nothing was resolved, everyone was disappointed by conflict inflicted by themselves or others. The quote at the end of the movie, "I am my mother's daughter." Cheesefest!

This movie had so much more potential than what was given.

Highly disappointed, Would not recommend to anyone.

If you like Adam Sandler films, and or quirky romance, try Punch Drunk Love, that was a great film in my opinion.

 

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