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Topic: Spanglish (film)

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		Det märks att ”Den bästa av mödrar” är en noggrant genomarbetad film som alla inblandade lagt ner mycket möda och omsorg på.
		Marc Rothemunds film handlar i korthet om något så sällsamt som då godheten lyckas nå fram till ondskan och tränga igenom dess pansar av självrättfärdighet och blind arrogans.
		Länge har Lazic velat göra en film om något som han känner i grunden och har förståelse för.
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	SPANGLISH
		SPANGLISH is ostensibly a family drama/comedy that mostly focuses on a young Spanish mother named Flor (the gorgeous Paz Vega, more on her later) and her young daughter Christina (Shelbie Bruce) who attempt to seek refuge from their pasts in Mexico and start things fresh in Los Angeles.
		The film is largely narrated by the daughter as a series of retrospective flashbacks.
		The film flirts with adultery between John and Flor, and their individual moments between the two when they are alone are some of the best acted and written scenes all year (“They should name genders after you,” John tells her in a passionate moment).
	www.craigerscinemacorner.com /Reviews/spanglish.htm (1835 words)

	Spanglish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spanglish — also called espanglish, inglañol, or espan'glés, a blend of the Spanish-language words for "Spanish" and "English" — is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the United States, which is exposed to both Spanish and English.
		Spanglish is sometimes known by a regional name; for example, within Texas it may be called "Tex-Mex" (as distinct from the regional cuisine by the same name).
		That Spanglish is uniform; that is, that it is the same for all speakers in all places.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanglish (1313 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Spanglish
		James L. Brooks' "Spanglish" (Columbia) is a charming and wise comedy with an edge, dealing with cultural assimilation, relationships, and parenting with great profundity beneath its breezy surface.
		Deborah is utterly self-centered in all respects, and even in the bedroom she cares only for her own pleasure, as we observe in the film's one sexual (though not graphic) scene; later, we learn she succumbs to an (off-screen) affair with a real estate agent.
		This lovely, intelligent and very moral film is filled with wise and perceptive observations, and is one of the best of the year.
	www.usccb.org /movies/s/spanglish.shtml (835 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Spanglish
		And, now he delivers "Spanglish", which is certainly his most unusual film to date in that it is nothing like his previous works.
		Three months ago, before anyone had even seen this film, it was already being dubbed one of the standout films of the year.
		Sometimes we think the film is about Flor -- after all, her daughter is the one narrating the picture.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/spanglish.html (1180 words)

	Spanglish Movie - The Hollywood News
		Spanglish is the latest effort from the outstanding James L. Brooks who, in addition to fashioning TV landmarks such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Taxi, has also delivered some terrifically insightful character studies like Broadcast News and As Good As It Gets.
		In Spanglish, he clearly has the less showy role and he makes the most of it in a turn that is gentle, sweet natured, and surprisingly emotional.
		And I was a bit irked that the entire film was from Cristina’s point of view (made apparent by intrusive voice over) when the story as a whole doesn’t really seem to have as big an impact on her as it does on the other characters in the movie.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/spanglish.php (877 words)

	Film Review - Spanglish
		Spanglish is only occasionally sharply observed and only sporadically funny, despite honorable intent to make a timely picture about cultural pluralism, and the goal to provide a fresher, more honest look at such life-altering commitments as marriage, parenting, and family.
		Spanglish is a three-generational ensemble piece with dozen characters that belong to different age cohorts, ethnic groups, social classes, and even nationalities.
		Literally speaking, Spanglish is a hybrid of Spanish and English, a dialect spoken by nearly 40 million Latinos living in the U.S. But Brooks uses it as a metaphor as well, observing what happens to the intermingling of disparate cultures when their members end up living together under the same roof.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=121 (1314 words)

	Political Film Society - Spanglish
		Spanglish, directed by Jim Brooks, is a tragicomedy about problems of assimilation of Mexican Americans in the United States.
		Although the word Spanglish refers to the tendency of recent immigrants to converse in sentences with words from both languages, the film is about cultural contradictions, not language.
		The film is liberally explained in voiceovers by Christina (played by Shelbie Bruce), the young daughter of Flor (played by Paz Vega).
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/spanglish.html (507 words)

	Spanglish
		Sandler, his acting and this film are all wonderful; he is a talented man. The problem is with me; it’s a matter between my personality and the personality of many of his characters.
		On an important day for his business and his career, just as everyone is at the beginning of poring on the accolades, a key person in his organization literally pulls him away, out of the sun he was about to bask in, and takes advantage of him.
		Spanglish is such a good film, Sandler, and the whole cast do such a great job, that this did not ruin the film for me.
	hugereviews.com /Movies/S/spanglish.htm (870 words)

	Spanglish
		But alas, Spanglish is about expert chef John and his professional crazy person wife Deborah living the high life in L.A.'s jet-stream with Evelyn and their two kids, Bernie and Georgie (Ian Hyland).
		Spanglish wants you to root for John and Deborah and their diaphanous marriage, but it doesn't give us a reason to care.
		For a film invested in the importance of family, Spanglish is extraordinarily nihilistic and misanthropic.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/spanglish.htm (449 words)

	Film Review: Spanglish
		Sadly, the film's structure is a mess, as its screenplay fails to balance four separate plotlines and ultimately collapses under the weight.
		Indeed, the film's structural problems are myriad: we learn practically nothing about what makes Sandler's character tick, whether or not he's an alcoholic, or what his motivations are.
		Spanglish, while a welcome return to the multiplexes for Brooks, falls well short of what it attempts to accomplish.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/s/spanglish_2004_r2.shtml (454 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Sandler speaks proudly of 'Spanglish'
		Adam Sandler, a star of the film "Spanglish," arrives with his wife, Jackie Titone, at the premiere of the film Dec. 9 in Los Angeles.
		In "Spanglish," Sandler stars as John Clasky, a four-star chef and dedicated family man who watches, dismayed, as the blinkered exploits of his emotionally peripatetic wife (Tea Leoni) threaten to pulp his home life into the human equivalent of microwaved couscous.
		On "Spanglish," she says, "I saw a different side of the depth of his work, and he was delightful and boyishly charming, as you might imagine."
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600099920,00.html (802 words)

	SPANGLISH
		Spanglish begins in Mexico, where Flor discovers her husband is never coming back and she must raise her six-year-old daughter alone.
		Actually, the film really begins in the Princeton admissions office, where snippets of application essays are heard in voice-over.
		As in all of Brooks' films, this is a story of relationships: Flor and her intelligent, pretty daughter; Deb and John and their troubled marriage; the Claskys' kind, overweight daughter, Bernice (Sarah Steele), and her demanding mother; Deb and her genially drunk mother with a past, Evelyn (Cloris Leachman), and finally, Flor and John.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000737589 (834 words)

	INDEPENDENT CRITICS - Review Page
		The latest film by James L. Brooks, "Spanglish" is a film that made me laugh, made me cry and made me leave the theater examining my own values, thoughts, ideas and loyalties around family, friendship and dreams.
		Steele, with this as her first film, offers a heartbreaking performance as a young teen who so desperately wants parental approval and yet remains loyal to them as she is rejected time and again.
		If you love the films of James L. Brooks, you will love "Spanglish." It is a smart, sensitive and entertaining comedy that deserves to be seen this holiday season with its messages of hope and family.
	www.independentcritics.com /reviews/spanglish.htm (1041 words)

	Film Blather: Spanglish (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spanglish, which Brooks wrote and directed, has a lot of that: moments of emotion that have no heft but don't offend either, countered by instances of impressive cleverness.
		The film has less than zero staying power, and I ultimately have serious issues with its moral formulation, but its pleasures are difficult to negate.
		The performances from Sandler, Leoni, Sarah Steele as their daughter and Shelbie Bruce as Flor's daughter are beautiful exemplars of comic timing and convincing, entirely syrup-free emotion, and Brooks' script has an appealing ebb-and-flow, as well as some genius lines.
	www.filmblather.com /review.php?n=spanglish (736 words)

	Spanglish (2004): Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman - PopMatters Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Much as Spanglish makes their mutual attraction look magically real and charming, the prospect of John and Flor's romance remains alarming, and not just for the questions it raises about sleeping with the help.
		Equally troubling is the film's proposition that John is merely the put-upon nice guy, not responsible at all for his familial woe.
		Spanglish doesn't so much resolve this dilemma as divert from it, returning to its early focus on the working class mother-daughter relationship (see also: Helen Hunt and Jesse James in Brooks' last film, As Good as it Gets).
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/spanglish.shtml (1119 words)

	Spanglish (US - DVD R1) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
		The word Spanglish is a culturally based word which refers to the integration of Spanish and English into one cohesive language.
		Spanglish is told through the perspective of Cristina Moreno (newcomer Shelbie Bruce) who along with her mother Flor (Paz Vega in her first American film) immigrate from Mexico.
		She evokes emotions from the audience as well as any player in the film, and she is to be commended for it.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/spanglish.html (1740 words)

	Spanglish
		In "Spanglish," he is just a regular nice guy with some depth, trying to make his life work; especially his home-life and kids.
		To Brooks' credit, he prepared for this film by surrounding himself with Latinos and immersing himself in their culture in order to make Flor (Vega) and Cristina (the daughter) as authentic characters as possible, not Latinas-as-imagined-by-Hollywood-white-guy.
		Spanglish delivers on a number of levels, and I highly recommend this drama any night of the week.
	www.moviepatron.com /moviereviews/s/spanglish.html (383 words)

	Spanglish-Latest Classic Movie Reviews-Spout
		The thematic center of the film is the relationship between Flor (Paz Vega) and her daughter.
		The first 20 minutes of the film sets up their characters and shows how the daughter's command of English helps her Spanish-speaking mother communicate -- communication and miscommunication being the motifs of the film.
		The middle part of the film concerns how John and Deborah each deal with the communication problems they have with Flor, their new maid, making it clear that John has more patience and empathy.
	www.spout.com /films/240207/default.aspx (862 words)

	"Spanglish" (2004) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		I believe it to be an adult film with adult themes, even though it is set in a span of time when the main character was 12 years old and learning true life lessons; it is mostly about the conflicts and problems between the adults.
		But the best part of the film was Flor (the maid) and her moral compass that carries her through the story start to finish and ultimately redeems the film in the end.
		The overall message of the film was good- the husband and house cleaner fought to not have an affair and the mother and daughter really tried to have a good relationship.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/spanglish2004.html (3965 words)

	Filmtracks: Spanglish (Hans Zimmer)
		Spanglish: (Hans Zimmer) As if almost on cue, James L. Brooks' newest comedy/drama about interpersonal relationships arrives on the scene just in time to sweep away critics and audiences with its charm during the awards season.
		Unlike the more deadly serious variations on that story in past films, Spanglish treats the Mexican woman as a sort angelic presence who helps --through the language barrier-- to give sound advice to help with the eccentricities of the her American employers.
		While the film does border on more serious topics (such as adultery, for instance), the aim of the film is to win your heart in the end, and Spanglish has done just that for many critics just prior to the 2004 awards nominations.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/spanglish.html (817 words)

	The Aisle Seat - Spanglish
		Spanglish is a film about people who cannot communicate with each other.
		This is particularly true during an extended scene in the final half-hour, where John and Flor attempt to bare their souls to one another.
		Spanglish, even in its flaws, is fascinating to watch.
	www.geocities.com /gamut_mag/spanglish.htm (1000 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Review - Spanglish
		Spanglish marks director James L. Brooks’ return to the film world after 1997’s As Good As It Gets.
		In films like Mean Girls, they’re presented as stunning and bitchy, and usually, they are in the forms of Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan.
		Spanglish manages to give every featured player their due scenes and they all work believably.
	www.tailslate.net /reviews/index.asp?ID=73&lst=n&dpt=film (980 words)

	Spanglish
		Flor and John feel a connection to each other because of they love they feel for their children, and it is this love that Deborah doesn't understand, and this draws her away.
		Although Brooks' intentions are genuine, the emotions in the film, especially from Leoni, feel artificial and manufactured, which puts a damper on much of the film.
		But Brooks knows where the strength of Spanglish lies, and continually goes back to Flor, who finds she needs to stretch herself and fight for what she believes is best for Cristina.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/spanglish.html (572 words)

	The New York Times > Movies > Terms That Are Definitely Not Endearments
		Brooks's new film "Spanglish" in a nearby editing room, that Deborah, who humiliates her overweight daughter by buying her clothes that are too small, is a harridan - a monster, in fact.
		Brooks traces the origin of his idea for the film's culture clash - when Flor is hired by Deborah and her menschy husband John, she and 12-year-old Cristina journey into the insular affluence of Bel Air - to a Guatemalan woman and her daughter who once worked and lived in his home.
		The "Spanglish" set, according to people who worked on the picture, was an intense vortex of creativity, with the director giving poetic, sometimes mystifying direction or none at all and delighting in watching his actors interpret their characters.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/12/12/movies/12grif.html?ei=5088&en=4ddf18b776037a40&ex=1260594000&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=all& (2448 words)

	Spanglish (2004) - A Review by David Nusair
		Brooks' films often focus more on character development than plot, something that often works extremely well thanks to an emphasis on people that are engaging and intriguing (think Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets or Albert Brooks in Broadcast News).
		As a result, Spanglish is Brooks' most uneven film to date - veering wildly between sequences that are just as effective as anything he's done before to those that feel woefully out of place.
		Spanglish is far from mediocre, but it's hard not to expect more from Brooks - particularly considering how much time he takes in between films.
	www.reelfilm.com /spnglish.htm (481 words)

	Spanglish Info, Trailers, and Reviews at MovieTome
		Spanglish is the story of a Latina mother and daughter as they move to Los Angeles and confront the opportunities and challenges of life in the United States.
		Not that of a movie it was a ok storyline but not a great storyline all the acting was done pretty good i give is a 3 star rating.
		The message in Spanglish is thoughtful and astute; it's the delivery that could use some work.
	www.movietome.com /movie/322143/spanglish/index.html (772 words)

	User Comments for Spanglish
		Spanglish was written and directed by James L. Brooks, who also wrote and directed Terms of Endearment and As Good As It Gets; if you liked those movies, you'll like this one too.
		The dialogue like the film in general, is hysterical when it means to be serious and totally flat when it's meant to be funny.
		So is the film that James L. Brooks has made about her, which shares most of the same qualities as the rest of his small but significant body of movie work.
	www.metacritic.com /movie/usercomments.jsp?id_string=3012:tRUdmddFfLDdJpnW-QA2Og** (2491 words)

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