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Y tu mamá también

  • 20012001
  • 1h 46m
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Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
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In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
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    • Director
      • Alfonso Cuarón
    • Writers
      • Carlos Cuarón
      • Alfonso Cuarón
    • Stars
      • Maribel Verdú
      • Gael García Bernal
      • Daniel Giménez Cacho(voice)
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    • Director
      • Alfonso Cuarón
    • Writers
      • Carlos Cuarón
      • Alfonso Cuarón
    • Stars
      • Maribel Verdú
      • Gael García Bernal
      • Daniel Giménez Cacho(voice)
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 417User reviews
    • 169Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 39 wins & 48 nominations total

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    Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Diego Luna and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Ana López Mercado, and María Aura in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Diego Luna in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Diego Luna and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)
    Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in Y tu mamá también (2001)

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    Maribel Verdú
    Maribel Verdú
    • Luisa Cortés
    Gael García Bernal
    Gael García Bernal
    • Julio Zapata
    Daniel Giménez Cacho
    Daniel Giménez Cacho
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Ana López Mercado
    • Ana Morelos
    Diego Luna
    Diego Luna
    • Tenoch Iturbide
    Nathan Grinberg
    • Manuel Huerta
    Verónica Langer
    Verónica Langer
    • María Eugenia Calles de Huerta
    María Aura
    María Aura
    • Cecilia Huerta
    Giselle Audirac
    • Nicole Bazaine
    Arturo Ríos
    Arturo Ríos
    • Esteban Morelos
    Andrés Almeida
    Andrés Almeida
    • Diego 'Saba' Madero
    Diana Bracho
    Diana Bracho
    • Silvia Allende de Iturbide
    Emilio Echevarría
    Emilio Echevarría
    • Miguel Iturbide
    Marta Aura
    Marta Aura
    • Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende
    Juan Carlos Remolina
    Juan Carlos Remolina
    • Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca
    Liboria Rodríguez
    • Leodegaria 'Leo' Victoria
    Silverio Palacios
    Silverio Palacios
    • Jesús 'Chuy' Carranza
    Mayra Serbulo
    • Mabel Juárez de Carranza
    • Director
      • Alfonso Cuarón
    • Writers
      • Carlos Cuarón
      • Alfonso Cuarón
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    • Trivia
      When the producers tried to buy the rights of Frank Zappa's "Watermelon in Easter Hay" they were told by Zappa's family that Zappa requested that three of his songs were never played in any media except the album where they appear and that song was one of them. Gail Zappa, Frank's widow, saw the movie when editing was almost completed and agreed to make an exception because she considered that Zappa would be proud of the movie.
    • Goofs
      The movie takes place in the summertime - we know this from the boys just having graduated, their girls going off to Europe, the weather, etc. Yet at the wedding near the beginning of the film, the narrator tells us that in a few days the president of Mexico will go to Seattle for the WTO conference - which happened in November.
    • Quotes

      Luisa: You have to make the clitoris your best friend.

      Tenoch: What kind of friend is always hiding?

    • Alternate versions
      Several scenes edited out of the final movie were made available for public viewing on the movie's official Web site. The director claims to have created multiple edits of this film to satisfy censorship rules around the world. According to the director, one of these edits, allegedly intended for Mexican distribution in protest of that country's heavy censorship, runs less than 10 minutes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Detrás de 'Y tu mamá también', the making-of (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Go Shopping
      Performed by Bran Van 3000

      Contains samples from "Shopping" written by Eek-A-Mouse (as Ripton Hylton) and Jamal-Ski

      Published by Plaything Music, Explicit Two & Eek-A-Mouse Music

      administered by Plaything Music (ASCAP)

      Eek-A-Mouse appears courtesy of Explicit Entertainment, by license from Sunset Boulevard Entertainment

    User reviews417

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    Alfonso Cuaron and Company Tease and Dare
    The two teenage males in this sharply etched film, "Y tu mama tambien," are obsessed with sex and view its pleasures as something akin to joyfully skating across a frozen lake. As the story develops the ice gets thinner and thinner, its incapacity to carry the weight of their fantasies advances faster than their growing inevitable end stop - maturity.

    The Mexico of the teenagers and their generally stoned friends is one of affluence and political connectedness. One father belongs to a country club that features one of the biggest private swimming pools I've seen - no film set here (the pool is the scene of a very, ah, unusual depiction of teen horniness). Neither of the lads cares much about the actual political and social issues occurring during their adventures and which are seamlessly integrated into their story. Their futures are a blank to them but a blank untroubled by the need to be concerned or ambitious.

    And then arrives the femme fatale, a beautiful, smart but very raunchy just-left-husband gal with whom they take off in a beaten-up old station wagon to find, ostensibly, a secret beach. Of course what the guys have in mind is seduction.

    Without a polemical discourse the viewer is carried into the isolation and poverty of much of Mexico as asphalt yields to hard dirt roads leading to barely navigable sand traps. The people they encounter along the way are realized subtly but effectively.

    These teens aren't really so likable but they do show occasional promise of growing up, a redeeming feature. This is less a road film than it is a comedy of (very bad) manners. The director and three leading characters have taken raunch to a new and interesting cinematic plane.

    While these kids may be a parent's nightmare, they become more complex, and inevitably more insightful, as the film develops. By the end they are very, very different people and in danger of becoming sort of plain vanilla post-teens (whatever the Mexican equivalent of the Japanese "salaryman" is, they may well be launched along that path).

    This film is rated "R" but many will wonder how it avoided an "X." Be forewarned. But some of the sex scenes are hilarious - especially if the viewer has ever been a teenager. :)

    Cuaron uses voiceovers not so much to explain the story but to quietly show that all lives have "sidebar" events beyond the tale being told, events that can be described in one or two sentences and which illuminate the fullness of a character's journey.

    The scenery is gorgeous.

    Definitely a different and engrossing story.
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    • lawprof
    • Mar 23, 2002

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    • Release date
      • June 8, 2001 (Mexico)
    • Country of origin
      • Mexico
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • And Your Mother Too
    • Filming locations
      • Tepelmeme Villa de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico
    • Production companies
      • Anhelo Producciones
      • Besame Mucho Pictures
      • Producciones Anhelo
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $2,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $13,839,658
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $408,091
      • Mar 17, 2002
    • Gross worldwide
      • $33,616,692
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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