I want to really love this movie, however I can't. This is probably Adam Sandler's best performance ever and the other actors are very good. The problem, like most of James L. Brooks's movies like As Good As It Gets and Jerry Maguire, this movie goes on far longer than it needs to. Spanglish tells the story of a Mexican woman getting a job for a rich white couple with two children. She brings her own daughter with her and they begin to bond together. The main problem I had with this movie is that the values of the Mexican woman's are good and the values of the white people are bad. This is apparent even when it makes no sense. In the end, the woman has quit her job and the daughter was taken out of the exclusive private school the white woman had helped her get into. Yet, the daughter got into Princeton University by disassociating themselves with the white people. Huh?! Does that make any sense to anybody else? Private schools would have given her a better chance to go to Princeton. I give this movie a mild recommendation for the characters but not for the values it tries to show.
