The next day, Luisa calls Tenoch and asks if their offer to accompany them to the beach is still open.Īlthough Julio and Tenoch have little idea where they will actually go, the three set off, driving through rural Mexico. Later, Luisa visits a doctor after her appointment, she receives a phone call from a drunken Jano, who tearfully confesses that he cheated on her. Trying to impress Luisa, the boys talk about a fictitious, secluded beach called Boca del Cielo ("Heaven's Mouth") however, she initially declines their invitation to accompany them there. Without their girlfriends around, the boys take the opportunity to live as bachelors.Īt a wedding, they meet Luisa, the Spanish wife of Tenoch's cousin, Jano. The film opens with "two teenage best friends", working-class Julio and upper-class Tenoch-each having sex with their respective girlfriends before the girls depart on a trip to Italy. The film received critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards and as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards. In 2002, the film was released in English-speaking markets under its Spanish title, with a limited release in the United States. However, in Mexico, the film earned $2.2 million its first weekend in June 2001, setting a new record for the highest box office opening in Mexican cinema. The film's explicit depiction of sex, nudity, and drug use caused complications in the film's rating. It is set in 1999 against the backdrop of Mexico's political and economic realities, specifically at the end of the uninterrupted seven decades of presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the rise of the opposition led by Vicente Fox. The film tells a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys who take a road trip with a woman in her late twenties.
It stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú. Y tu mamá también (Spanish for And Your Mother Too ) is a 2001 Mexican road film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos.
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