Spanglish
Director: James L. Brooks
Year Released: 2004
Rating: 2.0
A young mother from Mexico (Paz Vega) brings her daughter to the United States to live a better life, so to make enough money to support the two of them, she works for rich white suburbanites Adam Sandler (very miscast) and Téa Leoni. Works too hard to make Leoni's character a straight-out-of-American Beauty nut and too hard to neuter Sandler's character, but is dead-on about the rampant miscommunication, in which no one seems to be able to speak clearly and be understood by each other, regardless of race (even when Leoni has a big, tear-filled confession to make to Sandler, it's broken up into fragments). The ending is unsatisfying as well, leaving pieces unsettled - it's certain that Vega's Super Smart daughter goes to Princeton, but what about everyone else? Or don't they matter?
