BABEL

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal
DIRECTOR:  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
WRITER:  Guillermo Arriaga, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

PLOT:  Four different families with their own difficulties and tragedies converge to complete one story.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Mammoth, 21 Grams, Amores Perros, Magnolia

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THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES

GENRE:  Adventure/ Biography/ Drama
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De La Serna, Mercedes Moran
DIRECTOR:  Walter Salles
WRITER:  Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Alberto Granado, Jose Rivera

PLOT:  A story set in the younger days of Che Guevera and a motorcycle road trip he went on that would lead him to become the Che we know in history.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Before Night Falls, Into The Wild, Mammoth

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THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP

GENRE:  Drama/ Comedy/ Fantasy
MADE:  2006
CAST:  Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou
DIRECTOR:  Michel Gondry
WRITER:  Michel Gondry

PLOT:  A young man with a vivid imagination and unique dreams falls in love with his new neighbor and tries to show her what he sees.  Can he differentiate between fantasy and reality?

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Motorcycle Diaries,  Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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MAMMOTH

GENRE:  Drama
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Michelle Williams, Gael Garcia Bernal, Marife Necesito
DIRECTOR:  Lukas Moodysson
WRITER:  Lukas Moodysson

PLOT:  Three distinct stories of the lives of three connected people, a husband on a business trip in Thailand, a doctor wife who finds work emotional and the relationship between the live-in nanny and her child stronger than her own, and the live-in nanny's struggle to keep living in the states to support her family in the Philippines.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Babel, The Motorcycle Diaries, Magnolia

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