Y tu mamá también (2001)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Alfonso Cuarón

Writers:

Alfonso Cuarón (screenplay)
Carlos Cuarón (screenplay)

Release Date:

8 June 2001 (Mexico)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

La vida tiene sus maneras de enseñarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de confundirnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de cambiarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de asombrarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de herirnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de curarnos. La vida tiene sus maneras de inspirarnos.

Plot:

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

Plot Keywords:

Mexico | Road Trip | Friendship | Older Woman | Beach

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 33 wins & 27 nominations

Cast

Ana López Mercado	...	Ana Morelos
Diego Luna	...	Tenoch Iturbide
Gael García Bernal	...	Julio Zapata
Nathan Grinberg	...	Manuel Huerta
Verónica Langer	...	María Eugenia Calles de Huerta
María Aura	...	Cecilia Huerta
Giselle Audirac	...	Nicole Bazaine
Arturo Ríos	...	Esteban Morelos
Andrés Almeida	...	Diego 'Saba' Madero
Diana Bracho	...	Silvia Allende de Iturbide
Emilio Echevarría	...	Miguel Iturbide
Marta Aura	...	Enriqueta 'Queta' Allende
Maribel Verdú	...	Luisa Cortés
Juan Carlos Remolina	...	Alejandro 'Jano' Montes de Oca
Liboria Rodríguez	...	Leodegaria 'Leo' Victoria

Also Known As:

And Your Mother Too (USA) (informal literal title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content involving teens, drug use and language.

Runtime:

105 min | South Korea:102 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Philippines:R-18 (re-rating) | Philippines:X (original rating) | Brazil:14 (DVD rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Belgium:KNT | Brazil:18 | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A (Alberta/British Columbia) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) | Chile:14 | Colombia:18 | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Hungary:16 | Iceland:16 | Ireland:18 | Italy:VM18 | Japan:R-15 | Mexico:C (cut) | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:R18 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Poland:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:R(A) (cut) | South Korea:18 (cut) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | USA:R (cut) | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico

Company:

Anhelo Producciones

Trivia:

The ending scene where they talk while having a coffee was the first filmed.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Saba rolls the joint, the leftover marijuana on the Boda magazine on his lap, disappears.

Quotes:

Julio Zapata: Chuy, nothing like tooting the old horn!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Stuck on You (2003)

Soundtrack:

To Love Somebody

Simply The Best!

From the recent comments on this film board, it's amazing how people can watch this film all the way through and at the end not have any idea what it was about.

This was quite simply one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Using three central characters -- two immature adolescent males and a young woman in crisis -- set in a road-trip situation, it was hardly a road-trip movie. Nor was it an adolescent movie. Nor was it a woman-in-crisis movie. Nor was it about sex. Instead, what starts out with a sizzling but ditzy prologue becomes something much deeper and much more profound as it goes along. By the end I was breathless and somewhat stunned. The character study is amazing. The societal insights are haunting. The shared humanity it exposes is painful at time but ultimately reaffirming and uplifting. These are three of the most memorable, identifiable and completely human characters I've seen on screen in ages. They taught me more about life and the human species than the last ten movies I've seen put together. I'll not soon forget Julio, Tenoch and Luisa and their eye-opening journey to Boca del Cielo.