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Flor (Paz Vega), an illegal immigrant and overprotective mother, takes a job as maid for the Clasky family to keep an eye on her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), at night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina’s college entrance essay about her mother. The...
The emotional center of the film is the burgeoning romance between Flor and John Clasky (Adam Sandler). The pair’s connection could’ve easily been portrayed as a Love Actually-esque rumination on the power of love to overcome language, but Brooks is more original than...
As the films roll along you’ll think it’s the same old Sandler—calm, nice guy prone to atomic burst of anger—but as John Clasky he proves once and for all that he’s got dramatic chops. Sandler...
Part Telemundo, part Imitation of Life, Spanglish seems to deal mostly with the inevitable cultural clash between Mexican immigrants and Americans. Still, it plays itself out carefully, never dabbling in Manichean dramatics to make banal statements about assimilation. It doesn’t make light of the cultural clash, but...
With Spanglish, Brooks has proven once again that he’s one of the best filmmakers of our time: the balance of comedy and drama here is no small feat. But the real achievement is the writing. With prosaic gems ranging from sweet (“they should name...