Word: cristinaã
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Flor (Paz Vega), an illegal immigrant and overprotective mother, takes a job as maid for the Clasky family to keep an eye on her daughter, Cristina (Shelbie Bruce), at night. The film is structured with voiced-over excerpts from Cristina??€™s college entrance essay about her mother. The idea seems at first a little cheesy—the narration smacks of the immature musings of an over-achieving high schooler—but Brooks, great scribe that he is, somehow manages to make the words mean something. It actually becomes one of the strengths of the film: when...
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