La Misma Luna (English Translation: Under The Same Moon

If there is a movie that you must see, I would recommend viewing La Misma Luna (English translation: Under the Same Moon) directed by Patricia Riggen and written by Ligiah Villalobos. La Misma Luna was a surrounded with suspense featuring action and life threatening events for a teen that was separated from his moms an early age. The movie was filmed in Mexico and Los Angeles, and it was released in 2008 with showing in both Mexico and the United States. I am a single parent, and I selected La Misma Luna because I am attracted to or interested in mother-type oriented films telling stories of or relating to female-headed households. The movie had three primary actors: La Misma Luna starred by Adrain Alonso who played the little boy as Carlitos, Kate del Castillo acting his moms as Rosario, and the role of Carlitos’ friend as Enrique helped him with his journey through California to Los Angles to join his mother again. …show more content…
The movie brought a strong presence of a mother-son relationship. Some four (4) years later, the grandmother dies, now it is time for Carlitos to go with his shady relatives. Carlitos decides instead to run off looking to sneak across the border into the United States. From there, it was his first encounter where he was faced with capture and deportation at the border. Luckily, he was not discovered by the border patrol. Along this hopeless and captivating journey, Carlitos meets Enrique, and ultimately, Enrique helps Carlitos locate his mother. The two of them were faced with adventure and breast-taking moments of deceit, human trafficking, and