Rotten
An interesting idea, but Mammoth's good intentions -- like its characters' -- are lost somewhere in the delivery.
Cath Clarke, Time Out
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Lukas Moodysson Director
- Gael García Bernal as Leo Vidales
- Michelle Williams as Ellen Vidales
- Marife Necesito as Gloria
- Sophie Nyweide as Jackie Vidales
- Tom McCarthy as Bob
- Natthamonkarn Srinikornchot as Cookie
- Jan David G. Nicdao as Salvador
- Martin Delos Santos as Manuel
- Maria Esmeralda del Carmen as Grandmother
- Perry Dizon as Uncle Fernando
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
46%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Too many films exploit the perils faced by children when the social contract is ruptured, but Mammoth earns its cruel, sensationalistic turns and then some.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of Babel, its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
In Mammoth, when a rich child eats her lunch in New York, a poor boy in the Philippines cries. And so it goes, as privilege begets exploitation with grimly deterministic logic and pages and pages of bad dialogue.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
Mammoth manages to be as affecting as it is heartfelt.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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