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Under the Same Moon | 
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Director: Patricia Riggen
Actors: Kate Del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Bob Saldana, Los Tigres Del Norte, Gustavo Sanchez Parra
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 481
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 110
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 2252690
UPC: 024543526902
EAN: 0024543526902
ASIN: B00180IPM6
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
Even across thousands of miles the special bond between a mother and son can never be broken. It gives hope to Carlitos a scrappy nine-year-old boy whose mother Rosario has gone to America to build a better life for both of them. While Rosario struggles for a brighter future fate forces Carlitos hand and he embarks on an extraordinary journey to find her. Critics and audiences alike have praised this inspirational and heartwarming tale of a mother s devotion a son s courage and a love that knows no borders.System Requirements:Running Time: 110 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: LATIN/DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543526902 Manufacturer No: 2252690
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Under the Same Moon puts a human face--several very appealing faces--on the dilemma of Mexican "illegals" living and working clandestinely in the United States and the loved ones back home they're supporting. Rosario, a young single parent, left her village four years ago and jumped the border to find work in Los Angeles; ever since, she and son Carlitos, now nine, haven't seen each other, but she faithfully calls him from the same street-corner pay phone every Sunday morning. When Rosario's mother--the boy's guardian--dies in her sleep, Carlitos taps into an impressive reservoir of street smarts and contrives his own border crossing. The border is just the first of many obstacles to a mother-and-child reunion--not least the fact that the only address the boy has for Rosario is a mental image of the corner she always phones from. It's easy to take cheap shots at Patricia Riggen's feature-directing debut for tugging at the heartstrings, and certainly Under the Same Moon aspires to nothing like the political and psychological complexity of The Visitor, another film involving illegal immigrants that was released around the same time. But that misses the point, the nature of the mission, and the effectiveness with which Riggen carries it out. Carlitos encounters an almost Dickensian gallery of rogues and menaces, but that's allegorically appropriate for a crossover film (pun unavoidable) aimed at the general U.S. market as well as the Latino circuit. Nor is the movie guilty (as some have charged) of flogging an Anglo-bad/Latino-good poetics; there's opportunism as well as love among Carlitos's neighbors back home, and although Rosario is exploited and cheated by one of the two L.A. households she serves as a maid, the other family appears fond, even solicitous of her. Riggen's casting is on the money: Kate del Castillo makes a heartbreakingly lovely Rosario, and Adrian Alonso, in addition to giving a gutsy performance as Carlitos, has a marvelous old-man's face the camera never tires of. Veteran actress Maria Rojo creates a shrewd portrait of a woman who arranges border crossings and observes her own brand of ethics while doing so, and Eugenio Derbez brings raffish charm to a crowd-pleasing role, a guest worker who, though himself two leaps ahead of "La Migra," becomes Carlitos's reluctant protector. America Ferrara (yes, "Ugly Betty") contributes an unflattering cameo as a U.S. college student of Hispanic descent who doesn't understand Spanish. --Richard T. Jameson
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 Fox screwed up the subtitles August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nobody seems to have mentioned the subtitle problem on this disc, so I will. Fox Searchlight has made the dreadful mistake of using CAPTIONED subtitles in place of true English subs. Therefore you will be forced to watch descriptions of sounds such as [Phone ringing] or [Dog barking] if you don't speak Spanish. I can't believe such a stupid mistake was made.
 awesome every time i see it July 29, 2008
yes sir/ma'am it is awesome every single time i watch it couldnt have bought myself a better movie lol
 Good drama, innaccurate reality July 28, 2008
Under the Same Moon is well acted and edited. However, no one should conclude that the reality of entering the United States illegally on the Southwest border is as easy or as safe as portrayed in this movie.
I'm one for a good story, and even my logical heart gave way while watching this movie: I shed a tear because I felt for the separated mom and child.
However, I'm aware that this movie is simply that: a drama, a fiction made for entertainment purposes.
In one's education of border and immigration issues, Under the Same Moon is 3rd grade material.
If you'd like to move into secondary school to learn about the facts, the searing cold and burning hot reality of life for illegal immigrants and the surrounding culture on the Mexico-US border (and in this case the facts are more astounding than fiction,) please check a couple of resources:
1) Enrique's Journey. Now in book form, it was originally a series of double-Pulitzer Prize winning articles (feature writing and photography) this is a biography of a teenage Honduran who risks life and limb to travel through Mexico, then to cross the US border, finally to reunite with his mother in North Carolina after more than 10 years of separation. Once reunited, then the deeper drama/trauma begins as the reality of his Mother's life in the US crashes into his dreams of what their life would be after reuniting.
2) Hard Line: Life and Death on the US-Mexico Border by Ken Ellingwood. I agree with the Publishers Weekly review of this analytic: "Ellingwood transcends ideologies, rendering the border and all who dwell along it with the utmost respect and care. Likewise, he pays careful attention to the historical and economic conditions that tie the two countries together and lure so many to risk their lives for the chance at something better."
May ya'll have much joy and struggle while learning about the complexities of the place where I like to call home: the US/Mexico border.
The perfect family movie: no sex and violence July 21, 2008
Finally, a spanish-speaking movie everyone can see. No sex, no violence, no nudity, no bad language. A real tear jerker.
Heartwarming odyssey -- good movie!! June 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nine-year old Carlito pines for his absent mother, an illegal immigrant working as a housekeeper in Los Angeles. When his grandmother caretaker suddenly dies, he takes it upon himself to hazard a border crossing in Texas and try to make his way to L.A. to become reunited with his mother. Unaware of his journey, Momma wonders if she should return to Mexico to be with her little boy.
The kid playing Carlito puts in a devastating performance. His mother is smokin' hot. Hispanics are not stereotyped here but the Americanos are. Americans are pretty much uniformly portrayed as overbearing or corrupt.
Will mother and son become reunited in time? You'll have to watch, but you can probably guess. .
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