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Release: March 19, 2008
Directed by: Patricia Riggen
Written by: Ligiah Villalobos
Produced by: Patricia Riggen, Ligiah Villalobos, Gerardo Barrera, Norman Dreyfuss and Ram Bergman
Cast: America Ferrera, Adrian Alonso, Jesse Garcia, Kate del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Maya Zapata and Carmen Salinas
UNDER THE SAME MOON (LA MISMA LUNA) tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again. Riggen's film is not only a heartwarming family story; she also offers subtle commentary on the much-debated issue of illegal immigration.


spread the truth about these structural conditions... We are all under the same moon, a capitalist moon that grows ever darker as globalization continues its march across the globe... No WTO! Fair Trade Now! Workers of the World Unite against the ignorance of people like the guy who keeps posting again and again with nothing more to say than "they're illegal," "they're breaking the law"... well, guess what Exxon and Shell are doing around the world? What is the U.S. government doing in Iraq? What have U.S. corporations done in Latin America, with dizi izle the aide of the U.S. military, for over a century? They have broken the law, and they have broken lives, and broken the dreams of 3/4 of the world's population, who want nothing more than to live a decent life... and were our racist, xenophobic, narrow-minded friends in the U.S. to trade places, for a single day, with any of the denizens of the 2/3 world, they would be swimming across the Rio Bravo, or hiding in cars to get back to San Diego... The United States is illegal, stolen from the Natives, built on slavery...