Spanglish

Starring:Adam Sandler, TÃ©a Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce, Sarah Steele, Ian Hyland (II), Victoria Luna, Cecilia SuÃ¡rez, Ricardo Molina, Brenda Canela, Eddy Martin, Nicole Nieth, Jamie Kaler, James Lancaster, Phil Rosenthal, Angela Goethals, Sean Smith (II), Jonathan Hernandez, Thomas Haden Church
Director: James L. Brooks
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
Anyone familiar with writer/director James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) knows the man has a real feel for interesting women and a disarming way with a one-liner. The main women in Spanglish are Deborah Clasky (TÃ©a Leoni), a moneyed SoCal mom, and non-English speaking Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), the beautiful Latina whom Deborah hires as a housekeeper. The one-liners, some of them amusing, are everywhere. Brooks provides an intriguing set-up for the two women to butt heads--Deborah's pudgy daughter Bernice (Sarah Steele) needs the affection at which Flor excels, while Flor's clever, bi-lingual daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) is enamored of the financial advantages Deborah can provide--then proceeds to make Deborah so hatefully ignorant you can't imagine why her neuroses are the main thrust of the film. And Deborah's celebrated chef husband John (Adam Sandler, way over his head) is such a perfect parent he doesn't seem human--what happened to the Brooks who had Terms of Endearment mom Debra Winger turn to her scowling little boy and grunt "Don't make me hit you in the street"? Cloris Leachman has a nifty supporting role as Deborah's boozy, ex-jazz singer mother, but it's only one offbeat chord in an earnest film that hits all the wrong notes. --Steve Wiecking
Description
John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have afforded his family (T=E9a Leoni, Cloris Leachman) a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new housekeeper, Flor (Paz Vega), who has recently immigrated to L.A. from Mexico, and is trying to find a better life for her remarkable daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), who is rapidly embracing the American way of life. When Flor and Cristina move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous...especially when you're being embraced by an affluent, eccentric American family.

Spanglish
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very bad

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sandler gets serious

I'll never forgive my girlfriend...

Wonderful movie...but

Spanglish
Starring: Adam Sandler , Téa Leoni , Paz Vega , Cloris Leachman , and Shelbie Bruce
Director: James L. Brooks
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0007OCG56
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Amazon.com

Anyone familiar with writer/director James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) knows the man has a real feel for interesting women and a disarming way with a one-liner. The main women in Spanglish are Deborah Clasky (Téa Leoni), a moneyed SoCal mom, and non-English speaking Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), the beautiful Latina whom Deborah hires as a housekeeper. The one-liners, some of them amusing, are everywhere. Brooks provides an intriguing set-up for the two women to butt heads--Deborah's pudgy daughter Bernice (Sarah Steele) needs the affection at which Flor excels, while Flor's clever, bi-lingual daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) is enamored of the financial advantages Deborah can provide--then proceeds to make Deborah so hatefully ignorant you can't imagine why her neuroses are the main thrust of the film. And Deborah's celebrated chef husband John (Adam Sandler, way over his head) is such a perfect parent he doesn't seem human--what happened to the Brooks who had Terms of Endearment mom Debra Winger turn to her scowling little boy and grunt "Don't make me hit you in the street"? Cloris Leachman has a nifty supporting role as Deborah's boozy, ex-jazz singer mother, but it's only one offbeat chord in an earnest film that hits all the wrong notes. --Steve Wiecking

Description

John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have afforded his family (T=E9a Leoni, Cloris Leachman) a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new housekeeper, Flor (Paz Vega), who has recently immigrated to L.A. from Mexico, and is trying to find a better life for her remarkable daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), who is rapidly embracing the American way of life. When Flor and Cristina move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous...especially when you're being embraced by an affluent, eccentric American family.

Customer Reviews:

very bad.......2007-06-09

I want 2hrs of my life back. From now on I will wade through the fan-club reviews to read the more accurate reviews to weed out crappy movies.

Pretty bad.......2007-05-16

I purchased this on someone's advice - to see Cloris Leachman. Turns out she had a very small part. This is a movie strictly for Adam Sandler's diehard fans. Even he's not at his best here. The writing was one cliche after another. Bored, I found myself wondering how much exercise Tea Leoni has to do to get that body.

sandler gets serious.......2007-01-25

Adam Sandler in a serious role? Yes, after a fashion. As the most famous chef in America, husband, and father, he plays John Clasky, and is married to Deborah, a suburban housewife who raises the bar for what it means to be a type-A control freak. When we meet her mother Evelyn we understand why.This Los Angeles family is very wealthy and profoundly dysfunctional. Enter Flor, a Mexican housekeeper who has a teenage daughter Cristina who is the same age as the Clasky's daughter Bernice. Since her mom does not speak English, Cristina narrates the film for us. You can imagine the sub-plots of this "blended" family, but in the end Flor is a source of humanity, warmth, and normalcy for everyone.

I'll never forgive my girlfriend..........2007-01-24

...for dragging me to this estrogen-drowned disaster of a movie. Truly, this is one of the top three worst films I've ever seen. I am convinced that Adam Sandler must have been blackmailed somehow for him to appear in this dreck.

Begin with the oh-so-heartwrenching story of a single mother forced to flee her native land in search of a better future for her daughter. Of course, the daughter will end up attending Princeton and her entrance essay is the premise of the storytelling in this movie. Shaking your head in bewilderment? It gets worse.

The dysfunctional family that the mother finds work with is possessed of a shrew of a father (the soft, unimposing and backbone-free Sandler) who is dominated by his overacting, speed freak-like, obsessive wife (Leoni), and round it out with a live-in, late-stage alcoholic mother-in-law (who of course, acts as a moral compass thanks to the wisdom gained by decades of squandering her life in a booze-soaked haze. Please!) and a few damaged, utterly unbelievable caricatures of kids. Viola, enough ammo for "drama" to make any menopausal woman salivate in anticipation of the impending deluge of emotional excess that comes with such movies.

The problem is, there is not one scene in the movie where the characters earn your empathy. If there was ever a point where the viewer was meant to wonder what was going to happen next, or what course of action a character might take, I missed it. I believe it would be impossible to find a point in the movie that was not spelled out and spoon-fed to the viewer in the most plain and predictable terms.

Another problem I have with this picture is the off-target promotion it received. It is not a comedy. I don't know what it is in terms of genre. Suicide-accelerant maybe? Since there are so many who love this movie, I'm sure that my review won't stop you if you want to see it. However, if your wife/girlfriend suggests you watch this movie, I urge you to spare yourself the agony you are sure to endure if you sit through this one. Amazon should implement an option for rating zero stars, just for movies such as this.

(I originally posted a version of this review on another website)

Wonderful movie...but.......2007-01-23

..I don't understand all the comments about how the husband is "too perfect to be believable". He's not perfect, he's weak. He allows himself to be walked over, and is so anxious to keep the peace that he does not defend his daughter or the employees. This type of weakness is a serious flaw, in my opinion, because it causes others to believe that he is giving tacit approval; he's more scared of his wife than protective of his daugher. I still like the husband, but I guess I am commenting on the other reviewer's comments, which I frankly don't understand. I had no idea that Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni were such good actors. Thumbs up for an absorbing movie!

Average customer rating:

how to raise your kid

Spanglish

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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Product Description

PG-13 PARENTS STRONGLY CAUTIONED SOME SEXUAL CONTENT AND BRIEF LANGUAGE

Customer Reviews:

how to raise your kid.......2007-04-15

Great look on cultural difference, with twisted humor. Another great Adam Sandler movie, with great co-stars. Gives you insight of americas' dysfunctial families. I would buy this if you already own some adam sandler films

Average customer rating:

Spanglish/50 First Dates
Starring: Adam Sandler , Téa Leoni , Paz Vega , Cloris Leachman , and Shelbie Bruce
Director: James L. Brooks , and Peter Segal
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000850IOK
Release Date: 2005-05-24

Charlie Rose with Adam Sandler & James L. Brooks (December 22, 2004)

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Charlie Rose with Adam Sandler & James L. Brooks (December 22, 2004)

Manufacturer: "Charlie Rose, Inc."
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Description

An hour with actor Adam Sandler and director James L. Brooks. Their new film is Spanglish, a story of colliding cultures in Los Angeles.

Average customer rating:

funny sarcastic movie

Spanglish/As Good as It Gets
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ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000803BP8

Customer Reviews:

funny sarcastic movie.......2005-11-16

I started watching this on HBO one night mid movie and I had to get the movie to watch it from the beginning. This is a really funny movie and while I have detested other Sandler movies because I do not like stupid funny, this was just right for me. Tea Leonne is very complimentary to the Sandler Character and her mother ( don't ask me who plays her character) makes a good mix of more funny lines. The live in housekeeper and her daughter to a great degree have an excellent dynamic and make the movie - I really enjoyed it. Or maybe it's cause I'm a chick.

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