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Cast:Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega.
Director: James L. Brooks.
Writers: James L. Brooks.
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This is a story of two families with very different thoughts towards life.  You have John (Adam Sandler) a likeable guy that tries to teach his children independence and accepts them as they are, his wife Deborah, who wants their children to be perfect but sees them as failiurs, and their two kids. On the other hand you have Flor a poor, Mexican single mother of Christina.

Flor gets hired as a housekeeper for John’s family and later she gets asked to move in with them along with her daughter Christina.  When Deborah gets impressed with how well behaved Christina is she starts treating her as the daughter she wished she had by sending her to private school, taking her shopping and showing her more love than her own daughter.

To all of that you can add an attraction between John and Flor, an affair and Deborah’s mother, a carefree drunk who tries to stop her daughter from doing the biggest mistake of her life and you got an excellent dramatic movie.

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Trivia Provided by: The Internet Movie Database.

• Teenage actress Sarah Steele gained approximately 15 pounds for her role as Bernice. She is usually either a size 1 or 2.
• Anne Bancroft was originally set to play Deborah’s mother but had to pull out of the film.
• Shot in sequence.
• Two new scenes were shot when test audiences found the ending unsatisfying.
• There was a translator on the set as Paz Vega did not speak English and the director James L. Brooks did not speak Spanish.
• Though it was cut from the final version, it is revealed in the deleted scenes that Flor and Cristina came to the US via a small plane flown by Flor’s husband’s friend who flirted with Flor during the plane ride.
• Sarah Steele was cast from over 2,000 young actresses.
• The film had 13 previews to see the audiences’ reaction.
• The tape that Flor uses to learn English is a real tape.
• Adam Sandler turned down the role of Max in Collateral (2004) to do this film