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Spanglish |
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 Release Date: 12/17/04 (Future Release)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni, Paz Vega, Shelbie Bruce, Victoria Luna
Director: James L. Brooks
Rating: (PG-13) |
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Genre |
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Comedy, Romance |
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Running Time |
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129 min |
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Sony Pictures Entertainment |
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NEW YORK REVIEW
This, not Punch-Drunk Love, is the movie that proves Adam Sandler’s got the moves for drama. In James L. Brooks’s achingly delicate, ebullient film, Sandler plays a well-to-do L.A. restaurateur who adores his children (Ian Hyland and the glowing Sarah Steele) but has become distanced from his jittery, self-absorbed, yet complex wife (Téa Leoni in an utterly fearless, go-for-broke performance). He’s startled by his own attraction to the new housekeeper (a sultry yet vulnerable Paz Vega), with whom he has little in common. It sounds like the makings of a middle-aged-fling dramedy, but Brooks subverts our every expectation. Spanglish has lots to say and imply about class, race, and social issues (no movie has dealt with adolescent weight issues so forthrightly, for example, without a trace of feel-better preachiness). Some will see Sandler’s quiet despair as narcissistic, and side with Leoni’s roar: “Stop being so stark raving calm!” Some will find Cloris Leachman’s beautiful turn as a tippling mother-in-law a variation on old jokes. But the rest of us will revel in a rare movie that’s gratifyingly tough-minded yet funny, that doesn’t let anyone off the hook. The ending is a squishy letdown, but almost everything preceding that is an excellent paradox: provocative bliss. — Reviewed by Ken Tucker, New York Magazine
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