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Released
2001 · FILM

Y Tu Mamá También

Two Mexican teenage friends, Julio and Tenoch, vow to remain faithful to their girlfriends but spiral into self-discovery and reckless desires as they navigate class divides, forbidden attractions, and the blurred line between fantasy and reality.

“Life has its ways of teaching.”

Directed by
Alfonso Cuaron
Written by
Carlos Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron
Rated
MPA · NR
Runtime
106 min
Language
ES
Drama

Synopsis

In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman go on a road trip and learn about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 28

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Alex RodriguezShot by Emmanuel LubezkiDesigned by Marc Bedia

Box Office

2001 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$33.6M

Budget$5.0M
Worldwide gross$33.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $13.8M — 41% of worldwide · International: $19.8M (59%)

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Also known as

  • Y Tu Mamá También – Lust for Lifede
  • And Your Mother Tooen

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