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Spanglish

  • 20042004
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 11m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
84K
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Téa Leoni, Adam Sandler, Cloris Leachman, Paz Vega, and Sarah Steele in Spanglish (2004)
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A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
84K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
5,303
240
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • James L. Brooks
    • Writer
      • James L. Brooks
    • Stars
      • Adam Sandler
      • Téa Leoni
      • Paz Vega
    Top credits
    • Director
      • James L. Brooks
    • Writer
      • James L. Brooks
    • Stars
      • Adam Sandler
      • Téa Leoni
      • Paz Vega
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 383User reviews
    • 125Critic reviews
    • 48Metascore
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 15 nominations

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    Trailer 3:07
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    Téa Leoni in Spanglish (2004)
    James L. Brooks, Adam Sandler, and Paz Vega in Spanglish (2004)
    Téa Leoni and James L. Brooks in Spanglish (2004)
    Téa Leoni and Cloris Leachman in Spanglish (2004)
    Paz Vega and Shelbie Bruce in Spanglish (2004)
    Téa Leoni and Paz Vega in Spanglish (2004)
    Adam Sandler and Paz Vega in Spanglish (2004)
    Adam Sandler, Cloris Leachman, Sarah Steele, and Ian Donovan Hyland in Spanglish (2004)
    Adam Sandler in Spanglish (2004)
    James L. Brooks and Adam Sandler in Spanglish (2004)
    Adam Sandler in Spanglish (2004)
    Adam Sandler and Paz Vega in Spanglish (2004)

    Top cast

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    Adam Sandler
    Adam Sandler
    • John Clasky
    Téa Leoni
    Téa Leoni
    • Deborah Clasky
    Paz Vega
    Paz Vega
    • Flor
    Cloris Leachman
    Cloris Leachman
    • Evelyn
    Shelbie Bruce
    Shelbie Bruce
    • Cristina
    Sarah Steele
    Sarah Steele
    • Bernice
    Ian Donovan Hyland
    Ian Donovan Hyland
    • Georgie
    • (as Ian Hyland)
    Victoria Luna
    Victoria Luna
    • Cristina (six years old)
    Cecilia Suárez
    Cecilia Suárez
    • Monica
    • (as Cecilia Suarez)
    Ricardo Molina
    Ricardo Molina
    • Flor's Husband
    Brenda Canela
    Brenda Canela
    • Luz
    Eddy Martin
    Eddy Martin
    • Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
    Nicole Nieth
    • Hostess at Fancy Restaurant
    Jamie Kaler
    Jamie Kaler
    • Businessman
    James Lancaster
    James Lancaster
    • Businessman
    Phil Rosenthal
    Phil Rosenthal
    • Pietro
    Angela Goethals
    Angela Goethals
    • Gwen
    Sean Smith
    Sean Smith
    • Victor - Maitre D'
    • Director
      • James L. Brooks
    • Writer
      • James L. Brooks
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Two new scenes were shot when test audiences found the ending unsatisfying.
    • Goofs
      Flor consistently speaks with a Castilian accent, not a Mexican one.
    • Quotes

      Flor Moreno: Is what you want for yourself to become someone very different than me?

    • Crazy credits
      No actors were mistreated in the making of this film.
    • Connections
      Featured in HBO First Look: The Making of 'Spanglish' (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Historia de un Amor
      Music by Carlos Eleta Almaran

      Lyrics by Carlos Eleta Almaran

      Performed by Luis Miguel

      Courtesy of Warner Music Latina

      By arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing

    User reviews383

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    Top review
    7/10
    El Norte of James L Brooks
    Gregory Nava's "El Norte" was a memorable journey into the Latino experience in white wealthy country. That masterpiece had a heartbreaking scene between the Latino maid and a washing machine. "Spanglish" merely hints to a similar moment between the Latino maid and a coffee machine. The "merely hinting" is at the heart of this painful comedy of manners. This is the journey of an observer not of someone who actually lived it. As a consequence he treats his own with an iron hand and the others with a romantic, heroic, fairy taleish sort of slant. Putting aside the potential seriousness of the story, the film is a moving, entertainment fantasy in the land of opulence and guilt. The borders here are not geographic but personal, the aliens are the natives. They become illegal in their own existence and step all over their own lives without noticing, trying to care, trying to be the best they can possibly be but without points of reference or enough substance for their acts to have any kind of real meaning. Tea Leoni gives a performance of such fearlessness that sometimes you feel she may jump out of the screen. Cloris Leachman is great as an alcoholic wise woman who doesn't want to be judged. Paz Vega represents the ideal Latin heroine in a wealthy American's story. She is beautiful and powerful and utterly unlikely. Adam Sandler is Adam Sandler and seems to stand passively between the blonder than blond world of his wife and the exotic gorgeousness world of his maid. I would like to know what happened to Paz and her daughter after leaving behind the chances to be or become like everyone else in the white wealthy country of make believe, or is that too much to ask.
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    • Apr 26, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 17, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Sony Pictures
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Espanglish
    • Filming locations
      • El Paso, Texas, USA
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Gracie Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $80,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $42,726,869
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,817,853
      • Dec 19, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $55,470,154
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 11 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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