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.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 15 nominations
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Ian Donovan Hyland
- Georgieas Georgie
- (as Ian Hyland)
Cecilia Suárez
- Monicaas Monica
- (as Cecilia Suarez)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
Storyline
Flor Moreno, an impecunious single mother of one, emigrates to Los Angeles from Mexico in high hopes of creating a better life for her twelve-year-old daughter, Cristina. However, after landing a job as a housekeeper for the laid-back gourmet chef, John Clasky, and his well-to-do family, Flor will find herself up against a daunting language barrier, and Deborah, John's troubled wife. Little by little, as Flor struggles to start afresh, and of course, learn English, an inevitable cultural collision is at hand; moreover, a burgeoning romantic affection starts to take over. Will John and Flor ever bridge the linguistic divide? —Nick Riganas
- Taglines
- A comedy with a language all its own.
- Genres
- Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief language
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaTwo new scenes were shot when test audiences found the ending unsatisfying.
- GoofsFlor 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 creditsNo actors were mistreated in the making of this film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in HBO First Look: The Making of 'Spanglish' (2004)
- SoundtracksHistoria 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
Top review
beautiful
This movie makes me cry every time. Perhaps the soundtrack does it's job, or the push-ins when the characters have their deep emotional revelations of the epitome of their personalities, but it's not what happens that makes me cry. It is the way the characters are relateable, not so much as the commonness of their ways, because they are very quirky almost to the extreme, but because there is a part of every person in each of them, or at least a part to strives to be. The language barrier just highlights the dialogue, as one watching tries to hear it from foreign ears and yet understands movements and emotions better than what is said. And that, I think, makes this movie perfect.
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- princessariane
- Feb 14, 2006
Details
Box office
- 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
- Runtime2 hours 11 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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