Y tu mamá también

2001
1h 46m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

131K

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Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú in Y tu mamá también (2001)

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Coming-of-Age Road Trip Drama

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.

Director
- Alfonso Cuarón
Writers
- Carlos Cuarón
- Alfonso Cuarón
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

131K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

975

Director
- Alfonso Cuarón
Writers
- Carlos Cuarón
- Alfonso Cuarón
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 39 wins & 48 nominations total

Trivia
When the producers tried to buy the rights of Frank Zappa's "Watermelon in Easter Hay" they were told by Zappa's family that Zappa requested that three of his songs were never played in any media except the album where they appear and that song was one of them. Gail Zappa, Frank's widow, saw the movie when editing was almost completed and agreed to make an exception because she considered that Zappa would be proud of the movie.

Goofs
The movie takes place in the summertime - we know this from the boys just having graduated, their girls going off to Europe, the weather, etc. Yet at the wedding near the beginning of the film, the narrator tells us that in a few days the president of Mexico will go to Seattle for the WTO conference - which happened in November.

Quotes
Luisa: Who cares who you two fucked when you come that fast!

Alternate versions
Several scenes edited out of the final movie were made available for public viewing on the movie's official Web site. The director claims to have created multiple edits of this film to satisfy censorship rules around the world. According to the director, one of these edits, allegedly intended for Mexican distribution in protest of that country's heavy censorship, runs less than 10 minutes.

Connections
Edited into Y tu mamá también: Deleted Scenes (2002)

Soundtracks
Go Shopping
Performed by Bran Van 3000
Contains samples from "Shopping" written by Eek-A-Mouse (as Ripton Hylton) and Jamal-Ski
Published by Plaything Music, Explicit Two & Eek-A-Mouse Music
administered by Plaything Music (ASCAP)
Eek-A-Mouse appears courtesy of Explicit Entertainment, by license from Sunset Boulevard Entertainment

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Featured review

10/10

Simply The Best!

From the recent comments on this film board, it's amazing how people can watch this film all the way through and at the end not have any idea what it was about.

This was quite simply one of the best films I've seen in recent years. Using three central characters -- two immature adolescent males and a young woman in crisis -- set in a road-trip situation, it was hardly a road-trip movie. Nor was it an adolescent movie. Nor was it a woman-in-crisis movie. Nor was it about sex. Instead, what starts out with a sizzling but ditzy prologue becomes something much deeper and much more profound as it goes along. By the end I was breathless and somewhat stunned. The character study is amazing. The societal insights are haunting. The shared humanity it exposes is painful at time but ultimately reaffirming and uplifting. These are three of the most memorable, identifiable and completely human characters I've seen on screen in ages. They taught me more about life and the human species than the last ten movies I've seen put together. I'll not soon forget Julio, Tenoch and Luisa and their eye-opening journey to Boca del Cielo.