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Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 127 Fresh: 116  Rotten:11 Average Rating: 8/10
 
Consensus: A road movie that's not only sexy, but intelligent as well.
 

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Rated: 18

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Theatrical Release: 12-04-2002

Synopsis: The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of seventeen-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood. Over the course of a summer, the two best friends, while living out a carefree cross-country escapade with a gorgeous older... The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of seventeen-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood. Over the course of a summer, the two best friends, while living out a carefree cross-country escapade with a gorgeous older woman, also find connection with each other, themselves and the world around them. Just days after the boys trade heartfelt good-byes with their sexy, young girlfriends who are headed to Italy for summer vacation, their attention is diverted by Luisa, a stunning twenty-eight year old Spaniard. At a family wedding in Mexico City, the boys awkwardly flirt with Luisa, who is married to a distant cousin of Tenoch’s. Fueled by alcohol and her beauty, the boys invite Luisa to accompany them on a road trip to a remote beach with the romantic name of Boca del Cielo -- Heaven’s Mouth -- neglecting to mention that they wouldn’t know where to find it, even if it actually did exist. Luisa humors the boys, but not without first fueling their vivid imaginations. A few days later, Luisa, receives some heartbreaking news and, needing a change of scenery, tracks down the boys and accepts their offer. The unlikely trio hits the road, their destination not so much Boca del Cielo as that seductive and mysterious place where innocence, sexuality, and friendships collide.

As the saying goes, you never really know someone until you travel with him. With the car closing in upon them, Julio and Tenoch are forced to reveal to each other sides of their personalities they had never before even dared to explore. Though best friends for years, the boys realize they had often taken each other for granted, not seeing the person in front of them as more than a façade or an attitude. Luisa is the catalyst of self-discovery. Her presence brings out the best – and the worst – in the two friends. At times a sexy seductress, at other times the maternal figure each of the friends is lacking, Luisa, too, finds out what is important to her. As the road leading to the elusive Boca del Cielo becomes more desolate and inhospitable, the protagonists find there is no escape from a confrontation with their innermost demons and desires. -- © IFC Films [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Maribel Verdú, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Screenwriter: Carlos Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron
Producer: Jorge Vergara, Amy J. Kaufman

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Oct 10, 2003

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10/30/02
Brian Walker
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'Anyone with a passion for cinema, and indeed sex, should see it as soon as possible.'

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Paul Arendt
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A wonderful, forgiving movie -- one that understands how desire sometimes sidetracks us, because that's the way nature works

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Witty, vibrant, and intelligent.

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12/27/07
Joe Lozito
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Offers a shot of wise, freshly etched character comedy in a time when it's desperately needed.

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07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
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Brian Webster
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... an aggressively political movie, a heartbroken testament about a generation without role models or devoted fathers.

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01/15/05
Jeffrey Overstreet
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To everyone who bent over backwards to praise Y Tu Mama as raunchy, spicy, sexy, or hot, here's a novel idea -- skip this mild stuff and rent some honest-to-God porn.

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Martin Scribbs
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03/16/04
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Think of Y Tu Mamá También as a Porky’s movie for the intelligentsia.

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09/30/03
Mike Pinsky
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The allegorical name of the beach (Mouth of Heaven) is one of several obvious sexual innuendoes of the film but in the fantasy of world Cuaron, they all seem ordinary and predictable.

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08/01/03
Moira Sullivan
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