Y Tu Mamá También (2001) on Netflix
In Mexico City, friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata see their girlfriends off to Europe. At a wedding they meet Luisa Cortés and invite her to a beach that does not exist.
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Plot summary
Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata have finished high school in Mexico City and have watched their girlfriends leave for Europe. At the wedding reception of Tenoch's older sister, the two meet Luisa Cortés, who is married to Tenoch's cousin Jano and has recently come from Spain, and they try to impress her with an invented beach, Boca del Cielo. When Jano confesses an infidelity, Luisa takes up their invitation. The boys ask their friend Saba for directions to some beach that could stand in for the one they described, and the three drive out of the city. On the road Luisa talks about Jano and her first love, and the boys boast about their sexual exploits.
Cast
- Ana López Mercadoas Ana Morelos
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Y Tu Mamá También (2001)
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- Alfonso Cuarón did not want to cast Diego Luna as Tenoch because Luna was then a teen idol and telenovela star in Mexico. Gael García Bernal persuaded him to hire Luna, arguing their real friendship would make the two characters' friendship easier, and Cuarón was won over.
- In 2001, Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón sued Mexico's Directorate of Radio, Television, and Cinema over the film's 18+ rating, which they called illegal political censorship. The legal action exposed the government-controlled ratings board and pushed it to become an autonomous organization free of political influence.
- Y tu mamá también took $2.2 million in its first week in Mexico, breaking the country's box-office record for domestic films, and went on to gross a record $12 million there.
- Cuarón's script was deliberately minimal so the actors could help develop it in rehearsal, and the entire film was shot handheld instead of with high-tech equipment, improvised on set to mimic candid documentary footage.
