Watch it with your mom, I bet u will shed 1 tear
Added 10/5/2009
Okay, my mom has been telling me to get this movie for at least 2 months straight. Everytime ii go to blockbuster to look for it I can't ever find it. She told me it was brand new, so I look at the new releases section, then I find the movie in the drama section finally. This movie is about 2 yrs old already so it wasn't it were I've been looking this whole time.
Anyways, the movie is excellent!!
Adrian Alonzo is gonna be 1 of the best actors in the next 2 yrs just wait. The story is very touching and I am a cold guy, but this movie really moved me, I even shed a tear at the end.
I watched the entire movie with my mom and that was powerful, she loved it as well.
The story is a little hard to believe, how is a 9 yrs old boy in Mexico who hasn't seen his mom in 4 yrs gonna make it to L.A? Let alone by himself! That's the Main part of the story that kept me interested, because you want the kid to make it, even though it seems impossible, you keep hoping that they will reunite. Carlitos the 9 yrs old boy is no ordinary kid you quickly find out that he is really smart making it all the way to Arizona after his attempt to cross the border went all bad and ended up in El Paso Texas. Carlitos meets a laborer named Enrique played by Eugenio Derbez who at first despises the kid and wants nothing to do with him. After a close call with immigration where most of the immigrant workers they work with get caught up they manage to hide out and start to look for work and Carlitos tells Enrique he is searching for his mom who lives in L.A. Enrique reluctantly agrees to help, and Carlitos finds both of them a job really quick working in a diner as a dishwasher and waiter. There is a scene that you will really enjoy were Carlitos. Starts to sing along to a song on the radio, a song about a person who refuses to help someone, because the person thinks it will lead nowhere. Enrique then joins in on the song and they both sing it back and forth getting louder and louder until they are screaming it in each others faces. It is the best scene, because that song represents exactly what they are going through and what the movie is all about. The movie just gets better after that
I only have 1 complaint and that's that there is the mom decides to get married with the security guard who works at 1 of the house she cleans at, but all this happens over just 2 days! I feel that part could have been left out. It doesn't help the story at all
I reccomend this movie to anybody, great cast all the actors are on point, a great messege of hope and love, 5 stars!!!!
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ok,,,the ending was bad..
Added 9/10/2009
I kind of liked the movie it was hard for it to be believable do like not really realistic but it was nice I hated the ending do definitely would have liked a better ending overall ok.
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Item never arrived
Added 7/7/2009
I have viewed and purchased this vieo before and thought it so good that I gave it as a gift. Then reordered the same video for my own files. BUT, the video never arrived. Why? Who knows, but I suggest you change your mode of delivery. USPS mailbox drop-offs are not relieable. Please use UPS at least they will deliver to the door.
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Great for Spanish Classes
Added 6/13/2009
I got this movie as a discussion-starter for my Spanish classes, and all my students loved it and were engaged. I highly recommend "La Misma Luna".
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Under the same moon
Added 6/11/2009
This movie is very nice to show in Spanish Class. It shows the struggles of a working single mother from Mejico and the efforts to get her son with her. Since it shows the boy acting the content is appealing for the students. We talked about this and a teacher can design a variety of activities around it. Tomorrow the students will work in groups to write a different ending. Muy Buena!!!
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Watch it with your mom, I bet u will shed 1 tear
Added 10/5/2009
Okay, my mom has been telling me to get this movie for at least 2 months straight. Everytime ii go to blockbuster to look for it I can't ever find it. She told me it was brand new, so I look at the new releases section, then I find the movie in the drama section finally. This movie is about 2 yrs old already so it wasn't it were I've been looking this whole time.
Anyways, the movie is excellent!!
Adrian Alonzo is gonna be 1 of the best actors in the next 2 yrs just wait. The story is very touching and I am a cold guy, but this movie really moved me, I even shed a tear at the end.
I watched the entire movie with my mom and that was powerful, she loved it as well.
The story is a little hard to believe, how is a 9 yrs old boy in Mexico who hasn't seen his mom in 4 yrs gonna make it to L.A? Let alone by himself! That's the Main part of the story that kept me interested, because you want the kid to make it, even though it seems impossible, you keep hoping that they will reunite. Carlitos the 9 yrs old boy is no ordinary kid you quickly find out that he is really smart making it all the way to Arizona after his attempt to cross the border went all bad and ended up in El Paso Texas. Carlitos meets a laborer named Enrique played by Eugenio Derbez who at first despises the kid and wants nothing to do with him. After a close call with immigration where most of the immigrant workers they work with get caught up they manage to hide out and start to look for work and Carlitos tells Enrique he is searching for his mom who lives in L.A. Enrique reluctantly agrees to help, and Carlitos finds both of them a job really quick working in a diner as a dishwasher and waiter. There is a scene that you will really enjoy were Carlitos. Starts to sing along to a song on the radio, a song about a person who refuses to help someone, because the person thinks it will lead nowhere. Enrique then joins in on the song and they both sing it back and forth getting louder and louder until they are screaming it in each others faces. It is the best scene, because that song represents exactly what they are going through and what the movie is all about. The movie just gets better after that
I only have 1 complaint and that's that there is the mom decides to get married with the security guard who works at 1 of the house she cleans at, but all this happens over just 2 days! I feel that part could have been left out. It doesn't help the story at all
I reccomend this movie to anybody, great cast all the actors are on point, a great messege of hope and love, 5 stars!!!!
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ok,,,the ending was bad..
Added 9/10/2009
I kind of liked the movie it was hard for it to be believable do like not really realistic but it was nice I hated the ending do definitely would have liked a better ending overall ok.
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Item never arrived
Added 7/7/2009
I have viewed and purchased this vieo before and thought it so good that I gave it as a gift. Then reordered the same video for my own files. BUT, the video never arrived. Why? Who knows, but I suggest you change your mode of delivery. USPS mailbox drop-offs are not relieable. Please use UPS at least they will deliver to the door.
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