Under the Same Moon (2008)
73 %
Reviews Counted: 79 Fresh: 58 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus:
If Under the Same Moon is often manipulative, it is also heartfelt, and features strong performances from its leads.
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 19, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $12,507,834
Synopsis: Director Patricia Riggen delivers a heartwarming debut with UNDER THE SAME MOON. The story of the enduring bond between mother and son, the film stars Kate del Castillo as Rosario, a mother struggling to support her family in Mexico while living illegally in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, her son,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: America Ferrera, Adrian Alonso, Jesse Garcia, Kate Del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez
Director: Patricia Riggen
Screenwriter: Ligiah Villalobos
Producer: Patricia Riggen, Gerardo Barrera
Composer: Carlo Siliotto
Screenwriter: Ligiah Villalobos
Producer: Patricia Riggen, Gerardo Barrera
Composer: Carlo Siliotto
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06/20/08
There are only three types of [legal] U.S. citizens in the film: cartoonish rich elitists, drug addicts, and whiny young Chicanos who've shunned their Mexican heritage.
06/04/08
It's a movie guaranteed to leave you at the end with tears in your eyes and a big smile on your face.
05/02/08
Thoroughly watchable with flashes of inspired filmmaking, and it has a sincerity that, even when wrong headed, cannot be denied.
04/30/08
A beautifully rendered, unforgettable story of the invincible bond between a mother and son.
04/20/08
The film is a romanticized, effectively personal and emotionally heightened story.
04/18/08
What's stuck with me aren't the film's flaws but the success of its mission: It puts a real human face -- many human faces, in fact -- on a problem that many politicians would prefer to represent with a racist caricature.
04/18/08
It's a bit of a guilty pleasure, with its formulas and its sap, but if it can get Lou Dobbs reaching for that Kleenex, it will have done its job.
04/13/08
Top Critic
If a few scenes are a bit stiff, some of the cast a little too telenovela photogenic, the leads' stubborn, yearning performances build just enough of a melodrama to soften the film's tough realism and earn a hopeful ending.
04/11/08
The critic in me found plenty of nits to pick with Under the Same Moon. The sentimentalist, though, was ready to blubber.
04/11/08
It works -- at least until all those pesky coincidences get in the way.
04/10/08
a string of poorly-written, obvious clichés that litter the road many travel from Mexico City to the southern United States
04/09/08
It's a warm drama that humanizes Americas current illegal immigration debate even as it sentimentally stacks the deck in favor of the undocumented.
04/09/08
This may appear to be a simple film of a boy's determination to be with his mother, but in reality, it is so much more.
04/08/08
Without the exceptional performance by young Adrian Alonso, 'Under the Same Moon' would have been quite ordinary.
04/08/08
The performances -- and the movie's sideways glance at the culture of illegal immigrants, including a funny song about Superman ('He has no social security and no green card') -- give the movie its nicely controlled vitality.
04/04/08
Top Critic
[Director] Riggen coaxes fine, understated performances from her actors, whose faces are all she needs to sell the movie's heartfelt climax, a graceful scene that makes us feel what Rosario and little Carlitos feel.
04/04/08
Under the Same Moon combines all the elements of an old-fashioned tear-jerker with the low-key, low-budget intelligence of a carefully crafted indie film.
04/04/08
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