“Spanglish” quotes
(2004)
James L. Brooks
directed this movie
in 2004
Title Spanglish
Year 2004
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Year 2004
Director James L. Brooks
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Plot – Flor arrives in Los Angeles. She is coming from Mexico with her daughter Cristina. She is escaping from their world, in search of work and a better life. She gets hired by John and Deborah Clasky as a maid, but she is challenged to adjust to this new life with language barriers, with her daughter becoming a woman and with the eccentric lifestyle of her new employers.
All actors – Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce, Sarah Steele, Ian Hyland, Victoria Luna, Cecilia Suárez, Ricardo Molina, Brenda Canela, Eddy Martin, Nicole Nieth, Jamie Kaler, James Lancaster, Philip Rosenthal, Angela Goethals, Sean Smith, Jonathan Hernandez, Thomas Haden Church, Freddy Soto, Wendy Braun, Nichole Hiltz, Eric Schaeffer, Aimee Garcia, Jean Gaskill, Spencer Locke, Sarah Hyland, Andrew Sikking, Albert Melera, Liz Carey, Anastasia C. Ford, Yasmeen Azizian, Daisy Cruz, Kristha Sazo, Morgan Ward, Cheryl Ward, Christian Stone, Antonio Munoz, Storm Ascher, Robby D. Bruce, Christopher Morente, Brennan W. Penney, Natasha Perez, Tony Sagastizado I, Rachel Zeskind
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“Your low self-esteem is just good common sense.”
“- Deborah Clasky: You were an alcoholic and wildly promiscuous woman during my formative years so that I'm in this fix because of you, it is your fault and I just needed that moment for us to build on.
- Evelyn: You have a solid point dear... but right now the lessons of my life are coming in handy for you.”“- Deborah Clasky: So tell me again why I can't call him on his cell again?
- Evelyn: Besides that he turned it off?
- Deborah Clasky: Yeah.
- Evelyn: Forty messages starts to look needy.”“- Deborah Clasky: How are you nicer than me?
- John Clasky: You didn't set the bar that high.”“There are some mistakes you cannot risk when you have children.”
“When people exist under one roof, a tiny society forms - the stuff of novellas: masters and servants, unconsciously dancing in lockstep. So that when things go wrong, problems converge.”
“I never know a man who can put himself in my place like you do. How did you become that man?”
“- John Clasky: It must be hard being a widow, doing it on your own.
- Flor: Why do you think I am a widow?
- John Clasky: I guess I thought... that would be the only way a guy would leave you.”“Is what you want for yourself to become someone very different than me?”
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