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Leading Role: Paz Vega
Director: James L. Brooks
Rating: Rated PG-13
Release Date: Apr 2005
Format: DVD
UPC: 043396048522
Product ID: EPID44836568
Description: With SPANGLISH, writer/director/producer James L. Brooks (AS GOOD AS IT GETS) unfurls yet another accomplished, tender, romantic comedy. Celebrated chef John Clasky (Adam Sandler) is the patriarch of the Clasky household, but the mood sw...
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Good, not great.Review created: 02/24/07
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7 of 8 people found this review helpful.
It's a very sweet, well done movie. It's written and directed by James L. Brooks which means three things.
1. It's very long.
2. It makes you feel good.
3. It's tremendously well written.
Adam Sandler stars as the world's greatest dad, who was named the "best chef in the country" by the LA Times. He runs a highly successful restraunt, and has a good enough staff that he can spend time with his family in their gorgeous home. He is married to Tea Leoni, and his mother in law is the hysterical Cloris Leachman. They have a daughter as well, though the focus is on the married couple and their nanny, who I'll mention shortly.
The film is narrated by the daughter of the nanny as if she is writing this story as an admissions essay to a prestigious university (Princeton I believe?) the school name is irrelevant though. What we see is a story that began probably 7-10 years earlier, as she briefly goes through the details of her family immigrating from Mexico to America for a better life. The mother worked two jobs to make ends meet in LA, and they were happy. She could speak fluent Spanish and get away with it, and she rarely ventured out of the neighborhood.
Until her daughter got interested in boys. Then she realized that she couldn't work nights, and applied for a day job as the nanny of the Kaskeys (Sandler and Leoni).
The rest of what we see is a blending of great lines from Sandler, who gives arguably his best performance here. He plays what can best be described as a serious version of the lovable doof he plays in his comedies. Not quite the character in Punch-Drunk Love, but the same sort of quiet seriousness that he does very well. Leoni is respectable as his incredibly low self-esteemed wife, who seems to be obsessed with keeping in shape after the birth of her child, and one of the better scenes in the film comes when she buys clothing a size too small for her daughter as a way of encouraging her to keep the weight off. You can tell she means well, but it doesn't succeed, and Sandler is outstanding here, conveying a father who wants to be on the same page with his wife, but can't agree with many of the things she does with their daughter.
On the other side is Flor the nanny. She is a strict guardian of her daughter Christina, who is brilliant and bilingual. Flor is very strict, but very loving at the same time, and she is exactly what Sandler is looking for in a woman.
We'll leave it with that.
Mrs. Kaskey lets her insecurity get in the way far too often, and she eventually begins to adopt Christina as her own daughter of sorts. She pulls strings to get Christina a scholarship to a very prestigious private school, and the girl loves it.
Eventually, for reasons we can't discuss, she has to leave that school, and she's furious with Flor, who gives my favorite line of the movie in response.
"Is it everything you want to become nothing like me?"
This is a film about parenting, about marriage, about communication, and about love of all forms, and it's all done very well with many comedic moments to boot.
A-
1. It's very long.
2. It makes you feel good.
3. It's tremendously well written.
Adam Sandler stars as the world's greatest dad, who was named the "best chef in the country" by the LA Times. He runs a highly successful restraunt, and has a good enough staff that he can spend time with his family in their gorgeous home. He is married to Tea Leoni, and his mother in law is the hysterical Cloris Leachman. They have a daughter as well, though the focus is on the married couple and their nanny, who I'll mention shortly.
The film is narrated by the daughter of the nanny as if she is writing this story as an admissions essay to a prestigious university (Princeton I believe?) the school name is irrelevant though. What we see is a story that began probably 7-10 years earlier, as she briefly goes through the details of her family immigrating from Mexico to America for a better life. The mother worked two jobs to make ends meet in LA, and they were happy. She could speak fluent Spanish and get away with it, and she rarely ventured out of the neighborhood.
Until her daughter got interested in boys. Then she realized that she couldn't work nights, and applied for a day job as the nanny of the Kaskeys (Sandler and Leoni).
The rest of what we see is a blending of great lines from Sandler, who gives arguably his best performance here. He plays what can best be described as a serious version of the lovable doof he plays in his comedies. Not quite the character in Punch-Drunk Love, but the same sort of quiet seriousness that he does very well. Leoni is respectable as his incredibly low self-esteemed wife, who seems to be obsessed with keeping in shape after the birth of her child, and one of the better scenes in the film comes when she buys clothing a size too small for her daughter as a way of encouraging her to keep the weight off. You can tell she means well, but it doesn't succeed, and Sandler is outstanding here, conveying a father who wants to be on the same page with his wife, but can't agree with many of the things she does with their daughter.
On the other side is Flor the nanny. She is a strict guardian of her daughter Christina, who is brilliant and bilingual. Flor is very strict, but very loving at the same time, and she is exactly what Sandler is looking for in a woman.
We'll leave it with that.
Mrs. Kaskey lets her insecurity get in the way far too often, and she eventually begins to adopt Christina as her own daughter of sorts. She pulls strings to get Christina a scholarship to a very prestigious private school, and the girl loves it.
Eventually, for reasons we can't discuss, she has to leave that school, and she's furious with Flor, who gives my favorite line of the movie in response.
"Is it everything you want to become nothing like me?"
This is a film about parenting, about marriage, about communication, and about love of all forms, and it's all done very well with many comedic moments to boot.
A-
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Spanglish .. Not a bad movie
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11 of 18 people found this review helpful.
At it’s heart, Spanglish is about two women who might have the best intentions, but due to cultural differences, end up at odds over how to raise their children. Deborah Clasky (Tea Leoni) is your stereotypical SoCal mom – obsessed with fitness, money, and stature but that fails to mask what a basket case she is when it comes to her family, whom she is too selfish to bother to understand. Flor Moreno (the beautiful newcomer Paz Vega) is a struggling single mom that speaks no English but is hired on a whim by Deborah to be her family’s new housekeeper.
From here, some tame and typical cultural comedy ensues as the Clasky’s get to know Flor and vise versa. Deborah’s lush, ex-Jazz singer mother (the underused Cloris Leachman) is nice but clashes with her daughter on her life. The kids are spearheaded by the pudgy Bernice (Sarah Steele) who can’t seem to meet her mother’s expectations. And there’s John (Adam Sandler), the celebrated chef who can’t seem to connect with his wife. The plot starts to move as Flor, whether she tries to or not, becomes all the things to the family that Deborah is not. Things get compounded, however, when Flor’s bi-lingual daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) lives with the family at their beach house over the summer. Cristina and Deborah connect due to Cristina’s becoming enamored with the wealth and opportunity that Flor can’t provide.
While on paper, the plot seems intriguing – the film seems to hit all the wrong notes. Deborah’s character becomes unbearably ignorant and annoying that she weighs the film down. On the flip side, Sandler’s John is so annoyingly perfect as a parent and a person that his one character flaw of being non-confrontational made me want to root against him. Sandler’s performance is the only one that isn’t up to par as he seems a bit overwhelmed by the straight drama aspects (although his dramatic performance in Punch Drunk Love is my favorite performance by him, so I know he can be dramatic when he wants to be). Everyone else seems to do a good job with what they are given.
The Extras
One of the more ironic things about the DVD is that it doesn’t offer subtitles or an audio track in Spanish. That’s giggle inducing material right there. You can get both English and French though.
On the deleted scenes front, you get twelve of them. None would have added to the film in my opinion and Mr. Brooks tells you why in his optional commentary for each.
If you have a DVD/ROM, then you can read the screenplay. I don’t, so I can’t tell you how good or bad it was. For film buffs, any time you get a copy of a screenplay, it’s a good thing and I like that this is becoming a more available option on DVD’s. Bonus points for that.
There is a commentary track with both Brooks and other crew members. That’s pretty standard. However, you also get optional commentary on some casting sections which I found more interesting.
On the “fill the DVD with fodder” front, we have a featurette entitled, "How to Make the World's Greatest Sandwich featuring Thomas Keller of French Laundry." And no, I really don’t know why it’s there either. Also, you can watch the promo “Making of” featurette where everyone talks about how great it was to work with everyone else in case you missed it when it was run in-between movies on HBO.
From here, some tame and typical cultural comedy ensues as the Clasky’s get to know Flor and vise versa. Deborah’s lush, ex-Jazz singer mother (the underused Cloris Leachman) is nice but clashes with her daughter on her life. The kids are spearheaded by the pudgy Bernice (Sarah Steele) who can’t seem to meet her mother’s expectations. And there’s John (Adam Sandler), the celebrated chef who can’t seem to connect with his wife. The plot starts to move as Flor, whether she tries to or not, becomes all the things to the family that Deborah is not. Things get compounded, however, when Flor’s bi-lingual daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) lives with the family at their beach house over the summer. Cristina and Deborah connect due to Cristina’s becoming enamored with the wealth and opportunity that Flor can’t provide.
While on paper, the plot seems intriguing – the film seems to hit all the wrong notes. Deborah’s character becomes unbearably ignorant and annoying that she weighs the film down. On the flip side, Sandler’s John is so annoyingly perfect as a parent and a person that his one character flaw of being non-confrontational made me want to root against him. Sandler’s performance is the only one that isn’t up to par as he seems a bit overwhelmed by the straight drama aspects (although his dramatic performance in Punch Drunk Love is my favorite performance by him, so I know he can be dramatic when he wants to be). Everyone else seems to do a good job with what they are given.
The Extras
One of the more ironic things about the DVD is that it doesn’t offer subtitles or an audio track in Spanish. That’s giggle inducing material right there. You can get both English and French though.
On the deleted scenes front, you get twelve of them. None would have added to the film in my opinion and Mr. Brooks tells you why in his optional commentary for each.
If you have a DVD/ROM, then you can read the screenplay. I don’t, so I can’t tell you how good or bad it was. For film buffs, any time you get a copy of a screenplay, it’s a good thing and I like that this is becoming a more available option on DVD’s. Bonus points for that.
There is a commentary track with both Brooks and other crew members. That’s pretty standard. However, you also get optional commentary on some casting sections which I found more interesting.
On the “fill the DVD with fodder” front, we have a featurette entitled, "How to Make the World's Greatest Sandwich featuring Thomas Keller of French Laundry." And no, I really don’t know why it’s there either. Also, you can watch the promo “Making of” featurette where everyone talks about how great it was to work with everyone else in case you missed it when it was run in-between movies on HBO.
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What was Adam Sandler thinking?
) 3 of 3 people found this review helpful.
Before seeing this movie at the store, I had never even heard of it. Normally I would just pass over a movie I've never heard of, but when I noticed Adam Sandler on the cover, I figured it would be a good laugh. I was wrong.
I'm not going to go into great detail on the story here (don't really want to ruin it if this is your thing) - the movie did have its moments, but they were few and far between. That is not to say that it is an altogether bad movie - because it's not - but when I think Adam Sandler I think comedy. Had I been expecting an odd romance movie, I think my opinion might have been different.
Bottom Line: If you like Adam Sandler and enjoy his movies.. don't buy this.
I'm not going to go into great detail on the story here (don't really want to ruin it if this is your thing) - the movie did have its moments, but they were few and far between. That is not to say that it is an altogether bad movie - because it's not - but when I think Adam Sandler I think comedy. Had I been expecting an odd romance movie, I think my opinion might have been different.
Bottom Line: If you like Adam Sandler and enjoy his movies.. don't buy this.
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SpanglishReview created: 05/22/07(updated 05/22/07)
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2 of 2 people found this review helpful.
Candeismyname did an excellent review. I just woule like to embellish: Adam Sandler as a dad who is actually serious about being a dad is great. Too bad Tea Leoni doesn't know how to be a mother to her own kids and it takes that special woman to come into her life to be the mother they need. The mood swings of Tea's character is both amusing, annoying and so "Desperate Housewives" like. The Latina maid becomes the glue to teach the family culture and class. Cloris Leachman had a good part in this movie, but it was no wonder the daughter didn't know how to raise her own kids. Leachman's character tries to make up for the past though, by teaching her daughter what she has learned from her own life's mistakes.
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SpanglishReview created: 04/01/07
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2 of 4 people found this review helpful.
I heard nothing amazing about this movie beforehand. No one really jumps up and down and proclaims it a great movie. It was surprisingly wonderful. It's a story about Flor, played by the beautiful Paz Vega who leaves Mexico and comes to the United States and goes for a good job as a housekeeper in order to keep her daughter's best interests at heart. She works for Adam Sandler (John Clasky) and his wife Téa Leoni (Deborah Clasky). Let me just say first and foremost that I've never seen Téa Leoni look worse or act crazier. Deborah Clasky is a woman with low self esteem in the middle of some sort of early mid-life crisis. She is the classic says-whatever-pops-into-her-he
John Clasky is a decent human being, an amazingly talented chef, and a great father to his kids. Adam Sandler is damn close to being a good enough actor to handle it. In fact, he was great in every scene, short of a few moments. Somewhere in his career early on, he learned that things are funnier when they are louder. So he has been known to shout without warning in his movies. In this movie, it maybe works in one scene in a car where he really needs to vent. In other scenes, ("GET OUT OF THE WIND!") it really doesn't apply. It takes you out of the moment and makes you see Adam Sandler playing John Clasky instead of John Clasky as himself. But I give the guy credit for giving a great effort, particularly with the scenes with his daughter. They were very heartfelt.
I can't say enough about Paz Vega playing Flor. She's just so sweet, stubborn, and occasionally naive not to mention adorable that you can't help but cheer for her the whole movie. Her journey is based on making decisions for her daughter and trying to figure out what will be best in raising her. Since the whole movie is told from a narration perspective of an admissions essay to Princeton her daugher wrote, I'd say her mother did something right. I've never seen a more polite daughter in a movie before. I learned after watching that Paz Vega really doesn't speak english at all so they had a translator on the set for her. What an amazing challenge that must have been in itself and I'm sure it lended some realism to the movie.
I also have to put in an honorable mention for Cloris Leachman who plays Evelyn Wright, Deborah's mother who lives with them. For most of the movie, she is a drunk but she can still see things clearly more than most characters. At one point, she thanks Flor for not judging her. She sees her daugher's downward spiral and decides to take action by sobering up and telling her to knock it off. She finally feels like a mother again and because Deborah is so messed up, she has to listen!
I kind of hoped the ending would be a little different, but the movie's focus was on family, not romance.
John Clasky is a decent human being, an amazingly talented chef, and a great father to his kids. Adam Sandler is damn close to being a good enough actor to handle it. In fact, he was great in every scene, short of a few moments. Somewhere in his career early on, he learned that things are funnier when they are louder. So he has been known to shout without warning in his movies. In this movie, it maybe works in one scene in a car where he really needs to vent. In other scenes, ("GET OUT OF THE WIND!") it really doesn't apply. It takes you out of the moment and makes you see Adam Sandler playing John Clasky instead of John Clasky as himself. But I give the guy credit for giving a great effort, particularly with the scenes with his daughter. They were very heartfelt.
I can't say enough about Paz Vega playing Flor. She's just so sweet, stubborn, and occasionally naive not to mention adorable that you can't help but cheer for her the whole movie. Her journey is based on making decisions for her daughter and trying to figure out what will be best in raising her. Since the whole movie is told from a narration perspective of an admissions essay to Princeton her daugher wrote, I'd say her mother did something right. I've never seen a more polite daughter in a movie before. I learned after watching that Paz Vega really doesn't speak english at all so they had a translator on the set for her. What an amazing challenge that must have been in itself and I'm sure it lended some realism to the movie.
I also have to put in an honorable mention for Cloris Leachman who plays Evelyn Wright, Deborah's mother who lives with them. For most of the movie, she is a drunk but she can still see things clearly more than most characters. At one point, she thanks Flor for not judging her. She sees her daugher's downward spiral and decides to take action by sobering up and telling her to knock it off. She finally feels like a mother again and because Deborah is so messed up, she has to listen!
I kind of hoped the ending would be a little different, but the movie's focus was on family, not romance.
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Ebert & Roeper give it TWO THUMBS UP! WE DO TOO!!!! A++Review created: 03/21/07
2 of 5 people found this review helpful.
A GREAT FILM, from beginning to end!! Sandler, Leoni, and Vega play great roles and offer a superior performance!! Its shows us what happens when a busy-lifestyle takes over, and the possibility of undesirable consequences. VERY ENTERTAINING, VERY FUNNY, and will most likely bring tears to your eyes more towards the end. Very well written, and a movie that can be watched over and over again!! Definitely a MUST SEE/MUST OWN Video!! We do not regret our purchase one bit!! Hope you enjoy it as well!!
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Great romantic comedy!Review created: 10/04/06
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2 of 6 people found this review helpful.
This movie is so cute and funny but also sad! It's great and has such good points! I highly recommend it to everyone!
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SpanglishReview created: 08/10/06
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2 of 5 people found this review helpful.
I liked the movie. It was worth the money I paid for it. Adam Sandler as a dad who is actually serious about being a dad is great. To bad Tea Leoni doesn't know how to be a mother to her own kids and it takes that special woman to come into her life to be the mother she needs. Clores Leachman had a good part in this movie but I think it was no wonder the daughter didn't know how to raise her own kids.
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SpanglishReview created: 08/06/06
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) 2 of 4 people found this review helpful.
I love the movie actors/actresses and extremly funny. A movie I could watch over and over so I wanted to put it in my library of DVDs.
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SpanglishReview created: 06/09/06
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2 of 7 people found this review helpful.
I would love to write a review about this but I still have not received the dvd. This person sold to a number of people and they have not received their dvd either.
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spanglish {2005,dvd}Review created: 10/03/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
i bought this movie because i always root for the right and morally good in all people and this movie doesn,t dissappoint. differences and difficulties in these live,s show how easy things are taken for granted so subtley one isn,t even aware. the theme for me was" doing right and knowing right" even when it,s the easier thing to do wrong.
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This is a GREAT Story!Review created: 09/04/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
I loved the movie. I would recommend to anyone to see it. It is a great story from one persons point of view on many of lifes challenges. The acting was great and I was glad to see Adam Sandler do something other than a comedy. He was brilliant. Coming from a person that owns less than 10 movies in my collection, because I don't feel like watching the same movie twice, I own this one to watch again.
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good mix of worldsReview created: 08/26/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
The fairy tale of too different worlds of culture fall in love. I dislike the fact that they did not get together in the end. I loved that they knew how each felt about each other and that had they met before they had partners they could have been ideal. Over all a great movie for people who are romantics at heart.
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Spanglish DVDReview created: 08/07/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
I love this movie and it was in perfect condition! I was so excited to find it on ebay for a low price that i had to had it and try to bid for it. This movie was worth buying!
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spanglish movie1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
i always wanted to buy this movie and when i saw it on here i just had to get it. and i really liked it
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Spanlish SurpriseReview created: 05/25/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
This movie was so much better than I expected it to be. Not only was it funny, but it has a real plot. It addressed some real issues about cultural differences, as well as our expectations of our children.
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SpanglishReview created: 05/01/08(updated 02/17/09)
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
I thought this movie shined because of Paz Vega who plays Flor, the Mexican housekeeper hired by Adam Sandler and his on-screen wife, Tea Leoni. Sandler is a talente chef with his own restaurant and his wife is an emotional wreck with issues, but the story actually works because it's told well. Jasmes L. Brooks wrote this and made it flow nicely. I'm not a huge fan of Sandler but it's not his worst work. Vega and the girl who plays her daughter are terrific, they really throw themselves into their roles. The comic surprise for me was Cloris Leachman, who plays Leoni's mother who drinks through the entire movie, she was very funny, I thought. All in all, a pretty good movie.
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SpanglishReview created: 04/15/08
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
I love this movie!!! It is soooo sweet. Penelope Cruse is excellent and very eye catching!! Adam Sandler makes your heart melt. It shows the best view of a family's struggle!!
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Great Movie1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Adam Sandler displays an amazing performance in a role unlike any other for him. For an actor who is better known for his silly roles, this was definitely a pleasant suprise that brought tears to my eyes.
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Spanglish (2005, DVD)1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
i give Spanglish 3 1/2 to 4 *'s this i think is in Adam Sandler's top 10 movies
i actually think the Kids in the movie almost out weight the Adults ..
John Clasky (Adam Sandler)...
Flor (Paz Vega) / daughter: Christina (Shelbie Bruce)...
his hypersensitive wife, Deborah (Tea Leoni)...
just a good all around G rated movie nice for whole family !
i actually think the Kids in the movie almost out weight the Adults ..
John Clasky (Adam Sandler)...
Flor (Paz Vega) / daughter: Christina (Shelbie Bruce)...
his hypersensitive wife, Deborah (Tea Leoni)...
just a good all around G rated movie nice for whole family !
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Spanglish and it's entiretyReview created: 08/02/07
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1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
The initial appeal to the movie came with Adam Sandler being om the cover. I was expecting another gut renching comedy but what I got was another movie for my wife's collection of womanliness but,... all in all the purchase was a steal and needless to say a bargain is a bargain, no matter what shape or form.
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Spanglish1 of 3 people found this review helpful.
It started out well.... I could see the two stars hooking up before it was over but it was not to be... I found the ending lacking and that killed most of my good feelings about the movie. Its more about the acting than the action, but give me the latter anyday!!!
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Very satisifiedReview created: 12/02/06
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1 of 3 people found this review helpful.
I was very satisified with my purchase of the DVD, Spanglish. I received it very quickly and in excellent condition. I also really enjoyed the movie. Thanks!
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An excellent dvd1 of 3 people found this review helpful.
I bought this dvd because is one of my favorites. Excellent picture, drama, learnings; good in any way.
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Such a sweet film1 of 5 people found this review helpful.
I really love this film. The story doesn't center around Adam Sandler's character which is okay. This is a mother-daughter story that I've enjoyed watching with family members. Everyone that I showed this movie to enjoyed it. The music is also wonderful.
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