Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)

Name: Under the Same Moon (La misma luna)
Genre: Drama
Released: March 19, 2008
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Adrian Alonso, Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo

2008

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: March 19, 2008 | PG-13

Starring: Adrian Alonso, Eugenio Derbez, Kate del Castillo

Summary: When the death of his grandmother leaves young Carlitos alone, he takes his fate into his own hands and heads north across the border to find his mother. As he journeys from his rural Mexican village to the L.A. barrio, Carlitos faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles with a steely determination and unfettered optimism that earn him theWhen the death of his grandmother leaves young Carlitos alone, he takes his fate into his own hands and heads north across the border to find his mother. As he journeys from his rural Mexican village to the L.A. barrio, Carlitos faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles with a steely determination and unfettered optimism that earn him the grudging respect and affection of a reluctant protector, a middle-aged migrant worker named Enrique. The unlikely pair finds their way from Tucson to East L.A., but the only clue Carlitos has to his mother's whereabouts is her description of the street corner from which she has called him each Sunday for the last four years. Unaware that Rosario is just hours away from returning to Mexico to be with her son, Carlitos and Enrique desperately comb the vast, unfamiliar city for a place he has seen only in his imagination. (Fox Searchlight)… Expand

Director: Patricia Riggen

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 106 min

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Owen Gleiberman

The film says that the U.S. immigrant situation is untenable, but then it forces US to ask: What should be done? Read full review

James Berardinelli

The strong final third counterbalances the weaknesses of the first half. I prefer films that build to something worthwhile rather than collapse short of the finish line. Read full review

Claudia Puig

A powerful and evocative account of the efforts undertaken to forge a perilous mother-and-child reunion. Told in Spanish with English subtitles, it is a moving tale of yearning, as well as unflagging courage and determination. Read full review

Stephen Cole

If Under the Same Moon is formula melodrama, the film is well acted and its lead character perceptively drawn. Read full review

Premiere Glenn Kenny

Accomplished and well-intentioned to the extent that one wants to accentuate the positive, but the positive isn't the whole, alas; for every moment in the film that evokes classic neo-realism, there's another that's commonplace or overly sentimental. Read full review

Justin Chang

Wrapping the political hot potato of illegal immigration in the sentimental balm of a mother-son reunion drama, this stirring tale will be embraced most enthusiastically by Mexican audiences on both sides of the border. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Your enjoyment of this picaresque tearjerker may depend on how much you can tolerate its shameless contrivances and didactic social realism, whereby the story exists only to illustrate the plight of illegal aliens. I was ultimately more moved than appalled, but it was a close contest. Read full review

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LuissDt

May 23, 2022

La Misma Luna is a great jewel of Mexican cinema with fantastic and moving performances along with a script that knew how to shine very well

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ChellyV.

Mar 31, 2008

Hi !, I just wanna add that this movie worths every minute you pay for see it, like no one other movie did it last year ( except ratatouille ) this touch your heart in a special way, is completely honest and you want to see more when u you see...the end.