Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001)
92%RT Audience Score: 88%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 Oscar
39 wins & 48 nominations total
A road movie that’s not only sexy, but intelligent as well.
Y Tu Mama Tambien is the kind of movie that makes you want to pack your bags, hop in a car, and go on a wild adventure with your best friends. It’s a coming-of-age story that’s equal parts funny, heartbreaking, and sexy. Alfonso Cuaron’s direction is masterful, and the performances from Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are pitch-perfect. Plus, the scenery is absolutely stunning. If you’re looking for a movie that will make you feel all the feels, this is the one for you. Just maybe don’t watch it with your mother.
Production Company(ies)
The Directors Company, Saticoy Productions, Paramount Pictures,
Distributor
IFC Films
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Tepelmeme Villa de Morelos, Oaxaca, Mexico
MPAA / Certificate
Year of Release
2001
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:1.85 : 1
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Runtime:1h 45m
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Language(s):Spanish
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2002 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2002
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, Diana Bracho, Emilio Echevarría, Ana López Mercado, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, written by Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón, Comedy, Drama, $13.6M box office, reviewed by Anupama Chopra, Jason Bailey, David Ansen, Kimberley Jones, Peter Rainer, Eleanor Ringel Cater, Jordan M Smith, PJ Nabarro, Sophie Gorman, Andrea Beach, Eric Melin, John Beifuss, MPAA rating R, produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Vergara
Worldwide gross: $33,616,692
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $56,653,823
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,275
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 6,178,170
US/Canada gross: $13,839,658
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $23,323,816
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,358
US/Canada opening weekend: $408,091
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $687,751
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,326
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $2,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $3,370,577
Production budget ranking: 1,964
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $1,815,056
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $51,468,190
ROI to date (est.): 993%
ROI ranking: 126
Gael García Bernal – Julio Zapata
Diego Luna – Tenoch Iturbide
Diana Bracho – Silvia Allende de Iturbide
Emilio Echevarría – Miguel Iturbide
Ana López Mercado – Ana Morelos
Self – Alfonso Cuarón (Director, Producer, Writer)
Self – Carlos Cuarón (Writer)
Self – Jorge Vergara (Producer)
Director(s)
Alfonso Cuarón
Writer(s)
Alfonso Cuarón, Carlos Cuarón
Producer(s)
Alfonso Cuarón, Jorge Vergara
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
39 wins & 48 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (137) | Top Critics (39) | Fresh (126) | Rotten (11)
Y Tu Mama Tambien is the film that made me fall in love with Alfonso Cuaron.
May 18, 2020
Anupama Chopra
Film Companion
TOP CRITIC
‘Y Tu Mam Tambin’ remains Cuarn’s most fascinating work – and, increasingly, an outlier in his idiosyncratic filmography.
June 18, 2016
Jason Bailey
Flavorwire
TOP CRITIC
The movie has an emotional kick that lingers like a primal memory. When the year is over, Cuaron’s film will be remembered as one of 2002’s finest.
August 18, 2008
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
March 10, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
Kimberley Jones
Austin Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
The funniest and most emotionally charged erotic road movie since Bertrand Blier’s Going Places.
January 16, 2003
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine/Vulture
TOP CRITIC
Marvelous, merry and, yes, melancholy film.
November 4, 2002 | Rating: A-
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TOP CRITIC
Funny, heartbreaking, sultry and just alive through and through, Cuarón’s film is a work of fluid collaboration surfed upon with pure perfection from all parties involved.
November 4, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
Jordan M. Smith
IONCINEMA.com
It’s the near-silent scaffold Cuarón builds around the narrative tyranny of the bourgeois boys that becomes the moral of the story.
December 15, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
PJ Nabarro
One Room With A View
A powerful, mature film.
October 17, 2017
Sophie Gorman
The Herald (Ireland)
Bittersweet road-trip movie with graphic sex, language.
February 21, 2017 | Rating: 4/5
Andrea Beach
Common Sense Media
… a coming-of-age film with startling emotional depth and complexity, set against the backdrop of class differences in Mexico.
October 6, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5
Eric Melin
Lawrence.com
A sexy and often comical road trip that demonstrates how personal agendas and insecurities sabotage and corrupt not just personal but political ideals.
September 4, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)…
Plot
In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch’s cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven’s Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don’t exist. When Luisa learns of Jano’s latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse’s mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio’s offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach’s location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The film features Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna, who went on to have successful careers beyond this movie.
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