TY - ADVS AU - Brooks,James L. AU - Sandler,Adam AU - Leoni,Téa AU - Vega,Paz AU - Leachman,Cloris AU - Bruce,Shelbie AU - Steele,Sarah TI - Spanglish SN - 1404954996 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2005///] CY - Culver City, Calif. PB - Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Families KW - Drama KW - Women household employees KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Mexican American women KW - Comedy films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Feature films N1 - Original production: c2004; Director of photography, John Seale ; editor, Richard Marks ; music, Hans Zimmer; Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce, Sarah Steele ... [et al.] N2 - John Clasky is a successful chef and a devoted dad. He can afford a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu. Flor gets a job as a maid with the Claskys. Flor in not fluent in English but she does the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has no choice but to bring Christina along. Deborah, much to Flor's disliking, treats Cristina much like her own and at the same time she hurts the feelings of her own daughter, Bernice. When John's dreams begin to unravel, he begins to feel like his whole world is coming down around him. Told through Cristina's college letter to Princeton University, Christina learns that things come and go in life, but family is the most important thing a person can have ER -