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| | SPLICEDwire | "Spanglish" movie review (2004) "Spanglish" review, James L. Brooks, Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz ... |
 | | Beginning with a flashback set in Mexico, the girl's mom sneaks the two of them across the border and becomes a rift-healing, down-to-earth, "no hablo inglés" Mary Poppins maid for a harried yuppie family in upscale Brentwood. |
 | | Beautiful, indomitable Flor Moreno (Spanish actress Paz Vega, making her Hollywood debut) is never shown working, save one brief shot picking up a newspaper from a coffee table. |
 | | Vega strikes a wonderful balance in the role as an intelligent, passionate, tenacious single mother who struggles to fit into a foreign culture but refuses to relinquish any of her dignity or fortitude. |
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