• Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 03/19/2008
  • Running Time: 109 mins
  • Director: Patricia Riggen
  • Cast: Adrian Alonso, Kate Del Castillo, Eugenio Derbez, Maya Zapata, Carmen Salinas, Angelina Pelaez, Gabriel Porras, Maria Rojo, Ignacio Guadalupe, Pailo Heitz
  • Producer: Patricia Riggen, Ligiah Villalobos, Gerardo Barrera, Norman Dreyfuss, Ram Bergman
  • Writer: Ligiah Villalobos
  • Distributor: The Weinstein Company
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Tropic Thunder, 16.3 million, 65.8 million
  3. The House Bunny, 14.5 million, 14.5 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Death Race, 12.6 million, 12.6 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Dark Knight, 10.5 million, 489.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, 5.7 million, 25.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Pineapple Express, 5.5 million, 73.8 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Mirrors, 5.0 million, 20.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Mamma Mia!, 4.3 million, 124.5 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 4.2 million, 93.9 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. The Longshots, 4.1 million, 4.1 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)

Firing off a deluge of immigrant-hardship vignettes with the thudding consistency of a tennis-ball machine, Under the Same Moon presents a genre somewhat at odds with itself: the gritty fable. Last year’s The Italian, another story of a small boy’s picaresque search for his mother, struck a balance between the awful and the wondrous by surrounding the hero with a whiff of Grimm grotesque, in which it’s hard to tell the truly strange from the general strangeness of being a child. Director Patricia Riggen’s tone is too gauzy to cohere the perspectives of nine-year-old Mexican Carlitos (Adrían Alonso), who crosses the border alone when his grandmother dies, and his mother Rosario (Kate del Castillo), a Los Angeles maid who hasn’t been home in four years. Many of the scenarios don’t translate the immediacy of Carlitos’s jeopardy or Rosario’s heartache (the border trauma, the Bel Air bitches, the ICE raids), recalling instead distractingly similar moments in films like Babel and Fast Food Nation. Alonso, an expressive, ingratiating actor, develops a textbook rapport with Enrique (Eugenio Derbez), a grizzled illegal whom he drafts as an escort, but the duo’s travels never gain a traction of their own, and the film’s destination feels overdetermined despite its sweetness. — Michelle Orange

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