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Y tu mamá también

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  • 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

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    Before you read any further I would like to strongly suggest that you go see this film.
    Before you read any further I would like to strongly suggest that you go see this film. Do not read my review and just go see it. Find out where it's playing and buy yourself a ticket, in fact bring as many of your friends as you can, such as I did, and I promise you will all somehow have enjoyed it in a way films are rarely enjoyed. I do not feel that I will be able to describe exactly what I felt having seen this film, but if you would like to see my effort then read on.

    This is the story of 2 teenagers, Tenoch and Julio, best friends their whole lives, which have indulged in many of life's guilty pleasures. We meet them at a point when their respective present girlfriends are leaving to study in Italy, leaving the 2 friends on their own for the summer. In the short time after their departure we see a whole new side of the boys. They masturbate to the thought of Salma Hayek, smoke weed, drink hard, and flirt with another man's wife. She is a beautiful older woman named Luisa at a wedding, who in turn is Tenoch's cousin's wife. They flirt with her and invite her to come with them to the fictional beach Heaven's Mouth. She is of course reluctant, but takes them up on the offer after her husband one night calls her to confess he cheated on her. This is the beginning of the road trip to the non-existent beach that will change their lives.

    An unidentified man narrates the entire film, and when he speaks all goes silent in the scenes serving as a moving freeze frame if you will. He speaks the future of the lives we are watching these people interact with, and ultimately you begin to worry what will be of there own future. During this road trip to the fictional beach, all 3 main characters meet new and interesting people in new and interesting parts of Mexico. It makes them ponder life as their own past experiences begin to unravel in their intimate and personal conversations. Not before long the compounded sexual tension between them is in a way relieved, but to mixed consequences. All of the subtle characteristics of jealousy, anger, passion, naivety, become completely real.

    These characters are so believably acted, that when you see these actors in interviews or in other films you'll almost feel cheated. Relationships like this simply don't seem like they can be cheated; yet through some form of skill and humanity every element comes together just right, never distracting or deterring you from the story.

    Featured are some of the best-shot sex scenes ever (as one of my friends pointed out as a matter of fact). `Y tu Mama Tambien' finds a way of making all of it's moments feel intimate and genuine, yet never in bad taste. Alfonso Cuaron makes it difficult for us to believe what we are seeing at times is only movie, which serves this tale all the more. The shaky `Road Film Style' cinematography used here is perfect in capturing this uncommon, and unbalanced relationship. You are kept on your toes at all times, expecting something or someone to break. The dialogue is fresh and funny, the kind you just know cannot be faked, that in fact somewhere somehow the writer or actors uttered those phrases. I am convinced that a great majority of this film was improvised, whatever the case may be.

    This film is obviously more than flesh, more than experimenting youth. Take some of your favorite moments from mediocre mainstream movies like `American Pie 1 and 2' and remove all the slapstick value. You will realize that there is much more there than you ever saw before. That is what I think in small part this film strives to achieve. It succeeds. We can sympathize with theses characters every step of the way, because as we first get to know them you realize that they either are like you, someone you know, knew, or maybe someone you always wished you could be. By the time things begin to happen to these characters you yourself begin to feel part of their journey.

    This is an experience many of you won't take part in, and that is the sincere shame. Instead a great majority of people have been walking out of `The Scorpion King' unchallenged and un-entertained. `Y Tu Mama Tambien' offers a true form of escape, one that no blockbuster will dare. It's the lives few of us will ever live, for better or worse. What transcends from the screen to your hearts and minds is as eye opening as anything you'll ever see, and as effecting, if not more, as your own personal life experience. Bold words? Go see it and you tell me.

    Note: Please feel free to contact me and share your thoughts on this film or on my review of it.
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    • May 16, 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
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    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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