Mammoth
Mammoth
NR | 23 January 2009 (USA)
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While on a trip to Thailand, a successful American businessman tries to radically change his life. Back in New York, his wife and daughter find their relationship with their live-in Filipino maid changing around them. At the same time, in the Philippines, the maid's family struggles to deal with her absence.

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Portia Hilton

Blistering performances.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Mandeep Tyson

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Candida

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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kathyshalleck

Well, I like all of the actors but let's talk about their characters in this movie. While Michelle Williams as mother/wife/doctor is trying to save a boy's life in NYC...the happily married man - her husband - gets bored waiting for a business deal to go through and has a beach vacation with a young prostitute (and I note he fails to tell his wife he might be HIV infected by the prostitute). Also, I don't think the nanny would have left the girl Jackie alone without calling to tell her mother...you don't ask a 7 year old to do that. And the nanny's mother blew it by telling her grandson that the kids go at night and get money "sleeping" with someone. (What an unfortunate reminder that it is Westerners who keep the child prostitution going there.) And to add to the dreariness of the characters,the pace of the movie was horrendously slow. There was a heaviness, too...so on my list to never watch it again.

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Mauricio Campos

Haven seeing the good reviews of the movies I was waiting till the end of the 120 minutes of the movie for something to happen. The story only take the daily conflict of rich new yorkers and Philippians people 'drama' but without any real insight or resolution. This is a story worth telling. Unfortunately these characters are presented in a TOTALLY unbelievable way. Nobody needs a lesson on class struggle in such a naive and distorted form. Equaling being poor with "wholesome goodness" is even more superficial. The movie story stays on the superficial aspects of reality. From the cast, production and photography even it's shoot in NY and Philippines it doesn't take any advantage of the locations scenarios. In summary: it's one of the most plain movies I've seeing, with a 'soap opera' story style. Not recommended at all.

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nwerle-3

watch this movie if you are not able to sleep, it will cure your insomnia, phillipine expat life is not like they showed! this could have been a 30 minute TV show.the people know what the world is, the ones in the movie were spoiled.many are happy just to have a roof over their head and something to eat.movie did not show how the guy got a trip to Thailand, seems he is clueless about life.hookers in real life in Thailand do not look beautiful, they look like drug addicts. these were actresses. his grammar is ridiculous, his wife would not make enough to have a nanny or other things.go ahead and enjoy the sex trade think how your daughters will be the replacement

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hughman55

This movie attempts to comment on the sorry state of parenting today. Unfortunately the characters are written and delivered in a ridiculously unbelievable way. I didn't buy one minute of it. The story is about how parents abandon their own children for ostensibly good reasons, but the results are always bad. There's a husband and wife who are high powered professionals. They have delegated their parenting to a Phillipino nanny. The nanny has abandoned her children to come to the U.S. so that she can send money back to the Filipines to pay for a cement house she's having built. This IS a story worth telling. Unfortunately these characters are presented in a TOTALLY unbelievable way. Mostly this flaw manifests itself through Michelle Williams and the Spanish guy from "E Tu Mama Tambien" who plays her husband. I don't think they give "bad" performances. I think they gave the wrong performances, for this story, and this film. And that, I will lay at the feet of the director, whoever he or she is. I could care less to look it up right now. It takes a lot to take the time to write a bad review for a bad movie after you've just wasted 2 hours of your life that you'll never get back. But if one person reads this two minute review and decides not to watch this movie, I'll consider my time well spent. The last thing I'll say is that this film could have been salvaged with a complete re-write from the scene at the dump through to the ending. They wouldn't have had to change the ending. Just everything in between those two points. Instead it just nose dived from there to the last frame. Don't waste your time.

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