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Y Tu Mama Tambien

Actor(s): Maribel Verd�, Gael Garc�a Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echeverria
Director(s): Alfonso Cuar�n
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity, Drug Content
Movie Release: 2001
DVD Release: 10/22/2002
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: Spanish
Subtitles: English
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins
Studio: MGM
Total Copies: 5
Genres: Comedy Drama, Road Movie, Sex Comedy, Coming-of-Age
See Also: Y Tu Mama Tambien [Unrated]

DVD Synopsis

Mexican-born, New York-based filmmaker Alfonso Cuar�n directed this Mexican box-office smash hit about a pair of randy upper-class buddies that sparked some controversy for its frank depiction of drug use and sexual exploration. With their respective girlfriends away in Europe, Julio (Gael Garc�a Bernal) and his upper-class friend Tenoch (Diego Luna) are looking forward to a summer full of drink, drugs, and cheap meaningless sex. During a wedding, they meet Luisa (Maribel Verd�) -- the 28-year-old wife of Tenoch's scholarly cousin -- and try to convince her to go on a road trip to Heaven's Mouth, a made-up beach paradise the two claim is on the Oaxacan coast. To their surprise, Luisa -- who is looking to escape her troubled life for a spell -- agrees to go along. Two days into the trip, tension starts to build between the two friends: Luisa has had sex with each, and now both lads are not-so-quietly vying for her affection. Soon simmering jealousies boil over into savage arguments, threatening to completely destroy their friendship. After an enormously successful run in Mexico and Guatemala, this film was screened to much acclaim at the 2001 Venice, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Actors

Maribel Verd� - Luisa Cortes
Gael Garc�a Bernal - Julio Zapata
Diego Luna - Tenoch Iturbide
Diana Bracho - Silvia Allende de Iturbide
Emilio Echeverria - Miguel Iturbide

Editorial Review of DVD

This DVD of Alfonso Cuar�n's Y Tu Mam� Tambi�n offers a pair of transfers. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable in every way to the standard full-frame transfer. The Spanish soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials are limited to the original theatrical trailer. This is the R-rated cut of the film. A different release contains both an unrated cut and extensive supplemental materials. That version is superior to this one. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Member Movie Reviews

S A A. (Learned2Heal) wrote on 11/30/2008...

5 of 9 member(s) found this review helpful.

In spite of the nominations and awards this movie received, my husband and I did not enjoy it much at all. Perhaps we are out of touch with the mindless wild goings-on of extreme youth, but the most entertaining thing about the movie turned out to be my husband's brief summing up: "Beavis and Butthead meet Emmanuelle". Now *that* was entertaining. Mostly because it was so right on the mark.

Aside from the overdone youthful shenanigans, the movie tries too hard to be "artistic" with little, unrelated, political and philosophical sub-plots injected, seemingly at random, by the narrator. In sum, it ends up being not so much artistic as painfully artsy-fartsy and kind of pretentious.

This one is not a keeper for me.