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favorite road film

My favorite road film of all time would have to be Y Tu Mama Tambien. The road trip the three characters take across Mexico to their final destination, Boca del Cielo (Heaven's Mouth), is truly an adventure. Although it all starts out as a joke since the two main characters who are both teenage boys, played by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal, are trying to pick up a much older woman, played by Ana Lopez Mercado. Much of the film has to do with sexual discovery for the young boys but many lessons are learned along the way. Especially since Mercado's character has cancer and is making the road trip one of her last fun adventures. The ending is not very uplifting since the friendship between Luna and Bernal's characters morphs into a much more mature one but they both know in the back of their heads how much the trip to Heaven's Mouth changed them and opened their eyes up to manhood. I highly recommend this film to anyone and for more insight here is the link for the trailer -

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/trailers-screenplay-E15599-310.

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