Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
Coming Out at 8 June 2001 in theaters.
“And Your Mom Too”
Drama
Y Tu Mamá También is road film blending drama, comedy, and sex, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and co-written by him and his brother Carlos. It stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú.
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 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’s explicit depiction of sex and drug use caused complications in the film’s rating. 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. In 2002, the film was released in English-speaking markets under its Spanish title, with a limited release in the United States. The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards and as Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards.
The film opens with two teenaged best friends—working-class Julio (Gael García Bernal) and upper-class Tenoch (Diego Luna)—each having sex with their respective girlfriends before the girls depart on a trip to Italy. Without their girlfriends around, the boys take the opportunity to live as bachelors.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writers: Carlos Cuarón, Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Diego Luna
Cast:
| Daniel Giménez Cacho | … | Narrator (voice) |
| Ana López Mercado | … | Ana Morelos |
| Diego Luna | … | Tenoch Iturbide |
| Gael García Bernal | … | Julio Zapata |
| Nathan Grinberg | … | Manuel Huerta |
| Verónica Langer | … | María Eugenia Calles de Huerta |
| María Aura | … | Cecilia Huerta |
| Giselle Audirac | … | Nicole Bazaine |
| Arturo Ríos | … | Esteban Morelos |
| Andrés Almeida | … | Diego ‘Saba’ Madero |
| Diana Bracho | … | Silvia Allende de Iturbide |
| Emilio Echevarría | … | Miguel Iturbide |
| Marta Aura | … | Enriqueta ‘Queta’ Allende |
| Maribel Verdú | … | Luisa Cortés |
| Juan Carlos Remolina | … | Alejandro ‘Jano’ Montes de Oca |
| Liboria Rodríguez | … | Leodegaria ‘Leo’ Victoria |
| Silverio Palacios | … | Jesús ‘Chuy’ Carranza |
| Mayra Serbulo | … | Mabel Juárez de Carranza |
| Andrea López | … | Lucero Carranza |
| Amaury Sérbulo | … | Christian Carranza |
| Jorge Vergara | … | President |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia