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Mexican-born, New York-based filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón 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... read more read more... use and sexual exploration. With their respective girlfriends away in Europe, Julio (Gael García 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 Verdú) -- 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, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón

Release Date: April 1, 2001

Keywords: coming-of-age, road, trip

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DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002

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  • itsjustme2004
    April 20, 2012
    itsjustme2004
    Even though Gael Garcia Bernal is a favorite actor of mine, I don't share the enthusiasm this movie was received with. Most of all, this is about a couple of teenagers who act like two complete brats throughout, and who think about nothing else but sex, booze, drugs, and to have ... read morea good time at any cost. Not really my cup of tea, I guess.
  • fb634552688
    September 17, 2011
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    I've rarely seen other movies that depict characters and lifestyles as real as this. They didn't go through any extra effort to depict Mexico as a place of criminal or as nature's paradise, which is done much too often.
  • stevenecarrier
    August 12, 2011
    stevenecarrier
    I really didn't find anything that special in Alfonso Cuaron's surreal "Y Tu Mama Tambien." Sure, the performances are natural and the cinematography is vivid and dreamlike but the story is not all that probing. The film wants to illuminate questions about life, love, friendship ... read moreand sex but just kind of makes half-hearted comments about them, rather than committing to anything real. I did admire the film for taking it's extremely close male teenagers and exploring the intimacy males form with each other and taking it to taboo places. There is nothing "gay" about this film but it's certainly dealing with male intimacy, which can lead to homosexual encounters. Don't expect a 'coming out' story but expect an interesting take on male bonding. Still, it never seems to go far enough to really make a mark.
  • ythelastman89
    April 29, 2010
    ythelastman89
    I think that next to Five Easy Pieces, this is the greatest road film ever made. Itâ??s so accurate in terms of capturing real human emotion and life that it almost feels like it should be a documentary. The characters are amazing to watch. Not one of them are perfect people, in ... read morefact they are all full of flaws and defects. However, thatâ??s what makes them so good. Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luno give some amazing performances as teenagers in need of sex, drugs and fun. They are sort of the everyday person. They donâ??t know everything, in fact they have everything to learn. The road trip really makes them realize who they are and what they want. The coming of age element is something that everyone can connect to and this really takes a step further than any other movie. It dares to tempt you with sex and make you question relationships and friendship, something I wish more films would do. I think in terms of cinematography, this movie is just beautiful. You donâ??t see shots of the open road like that very often and the filming style is very much intertwined with the characters and story. It isnâ??t clean cut or refined, in fact itâ??s sort of dirty. I wouldnâ??t have a movie like this any other way though. It is as close to perfection as they come.
  • sanjurosamurai
    November 30, 2009
    sanjurosamurai
    this is a silly film. billed as a coming of age story, it plays more like a story about a married woman making two teenage boys fantasy come true. a little trashy and without purpose, this is an overhyped and pointless film.
  • SirPant
    September 16, 2009
    SirPant
    Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal have become quite a popular double act in South America and you can see why in this film. Unfortunatly though, I found Y Tu Mama Tambien to be a bit of a dissapointment. Its become a victim of its own hype. It's not a bad film at all, just not as... read more good as i'd been lead to believe.
  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    July 24, 2009
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."

    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.

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    `Jules & Jim' go South of the Border could have been the pitch filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron made in this funny and at times unexpectedly touchingly real look at sex, friendship, love and life lessons involving two immature Mexican buddies (Bernal and Luna) who hook up with sexy Verdu on a road trip to a seemingly fictitious beach whereby en route they discover some revealing things about themselves together and apart. Frankly sexual yet not exploitative in its depiction of unbridled passion and having an almost quasi-documentary feel to its underpinnings. A real sleeper that uncorks the differences between the sexes and a true coming of age story that rings universal no matter what language it is told in.
  • StarCrossedVoyager
    June 27, 2009
    StarCrossedVoyager
    I really liked the setting and the mise en scene to this movie but the plot was rubbish and boring and the subtitles made it difficult for me to enjoy any part of it. Simply boring.
  • kenstachnik
    June 1, 2009
    kenstachnik
    Can't go wrong with Alfonso Cuaron
  • groaningbitch
    May 31, 2009
    groaningbitch
    "and your mother too" is like the cinematic representation of mexican juvenile version of jack kerouac's "on the road", a contemporary road movie is raging outloud with audacity on epicurean narcotic indulgement and graphic sex as well as some leftist apathy on the banal mexican ... read morepolitics, a coming of age tale on the obnoxious self-centered youth. frankly, it's less than i have expected in the first place, but compared with the shallow chessy american teen movies, this one is much more provocatively realistic and joyfully poignant. it sweeps the audience, particularly males, with its gritty honesty. but except its honesty and emancipation from the ideological apparatus dominates the american cinema, it seems to lack a meaningful point. maybe that reflects the absence of respect for life is a common nowaday phenomenon?

    the story is simple, two spoilt rich kids with well-to-dp parents have excessive money and leisure time on their hands to smoke pots and shag around. what troubles them most is simply the overwhelming boredom becuz they don't have a thing to worry or concern in the world. so they whimsically targets on an older relative's lonely wife who happens to be addled with her spouse's infidelity, conjuring up a beach called heaven's mouth which may not exist to get her into a long road trip with them. they're fortunate becuz this wretched woman needs new exploration of life to savor her drab life and she may also be secretly wishing to get laid. so here they are....on the road.

    despite the dosage of sex might be a bit too heavy and spicy (as if it's a dish served for me, the audience, to taste. ha), but this movie obeys a very human tangible principle by being dialogue-driven...thru their conversations within the car, the profile of their characters are drawed with dimensions. but it depends highly on narrations to help rendering their psychological developments as well as their sweet and sour past memories. (a merit or defect?) it's freewheeling just like "on the road", kerouac's narrator sal paradise depicts all his friends' disdemeanors while himself seems to play the "metanarrative" to tell you all their thinkings. but the narrator in the movie doesn't play a part in the story but stays detached like a voyeurist.

    the kerouac beatniks in "on the road" still holds a yearning to seek some spirituality even their carnial fleshes are rotten with overflown desires. somehow the youth in "and your mother too" lose that course of mentality for sure, their main purpose is potential orgy. and also women in "on the road" is simply sex objects devoid of character dimensions as the men are probing life while shagging them(pardon the phrase..)..but "and your mother too" seems to reverse that, woman is the one in search of a meaning, the motor to drive the men forward as she's getting her un-satisfactory laids(transiet and lack of "quality"), she's contemplating on life, weeping her way over a divorce, solving it resourcefully with tenderness despite her behaviours, on the other hand, aren't quite discreet.

    the audience would firstly associate this movie by the sex since the woman character is too willing and available like an ideal phallic dream for male adolescents: a hot mature chic is more than ready for your penetration and she's also maternally big-hearted enough to offer your pal once just to mend your brotherly companionship. most of all, she ain't timid over a spontaneous threesome. where you could obtain such divine opportunity?? huh? primarily, the audience would surely dismiss the feministic aspect of it since the men are the ones sexually profited from this, but the movie is also frank enough to expose that young dudes cannot give gratifying sex. (at least they're "polite" enough to apologize for it)..but the whole story is about the woman's anew expenditure to break thru her withered life of temporality.

    in the field of film noir and beat generation literature, american outlaws, criminals or rebellious youth always escape to mexico, a primitive land of vitality, for a glimpse of light for life. how about mexicans themselves? to run even further from the metropolitan area to the savage highways close the pacific ocean. thus i call it comtemporary mexican interpretation of "on the road"...

    (ps) as you're watching it, you might feel the digust that why a educated well-shaped woman could be so low to condescend herself as a cheap gratuitous plaything for two brats who cannot even....and the boys are all self-centered enough to neglect the fact she's crying herself in the phonebooth inside the tavern. no one consoles her while herself is lightened up with the spirit to teach these two brats the truth of life, some free sex lessons as well as some meanings of things.(wouldn't that be a bit TOO EASY?) you won't excuse her until her disastrous revelation in the end....and one feeling i have over it would be sex is the best at the stage of your covetous imagination, watching every move in microscople makes you lose the admiring affection over the opposite sex. (it's for both man and woman)

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Critic Reviews

Peter Rainer
January 16, 2003
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier's Going Places. Full Review

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
November 4, 2002
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marvelous, merry and, yes, melancholy film. Full Review

Robert Denerstein
August 9, 2002
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

A giddy and provocative sexual romp that has something to say.

Mark Caro
July 20, 2002
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune

Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out. Full Review

Ann Hornaday
June 1, 2002
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Part travelogue, part road picture, part meditation on class, mortality and intimacy, this extraordinary little movie might be the perfect harbinger of summer, as astute as it is steamy.

Desson Thomson
May 9, 2002
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

The best road trip movie ever made.

Peter Howell
April 21, 2002
Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Represents a triumphant homecoming for director Cuarón. Full Review

Liam Lacey
April 19, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

If you like sex, you'll like the Mexican hit movie Y Tu Mama Tambien. Full Review

Susan Stark
April 12, 2002
Susan Stark, Detroit News

Stylish, hip, finally sad and above all, sexy.

Roger Moore
April 11, 2002
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

It's to Cuarón's credit that even at its most raunchy and ribald, Tu Mamá keeps its wits, its heart and its soul.

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