Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)
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40 free Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Under the Same Moon, released in Spanish as La Misma Luna, is a 2007 drama about a nine-year-old named Carlitos who sets out alone from Mexico to find Rosario, the mother he has only heard on the phone for four years. It was made quickly and cheaply, brought its first festival audience to its feet, and became a surprise hit on both sides of the border. This quiz follows the whole journey: the border crossing that goes wrong, the strangers who help and hinder along the road, Rosario's own struggles in Los Angeles, and the famous closing scene. It also covers the people who made the film, from the director and screenwriter to the cast, and what several of them did next. It suits Spanish classes that have just watched the film, families who love it, and anyone who wants to test how closely they were paying attention. Each answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which famous Mexican comedian took his first dramatic film role as Enrique in Under the Same Moon?
Eugenio Derbez
Eugenio Derbez was Mexico's best-known comedian, and few believed he could play it straight. The director cast him anyway, arguing that comedians make good dramatic actors too.
Q 02Which famous regional Mexican band appears as itself in a cameo in Under the Same Moon?
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte come from a small Sinaloa town and are based in San Jose, California. The band is known for its political and romantic corridos.
Q 03On which day of the week does Rosario always phone Carlitos from Los Angeles in Under the Same Moon?
Sunday
Sunday is the day of the call, made from the same public phone every week. Rosario and Carlitos have not seen each other in four years.
Q 04Under the Same Moon ends with Rosario and Carlitos on opposite sides of a street, waiting for what?
A crosswalk signal
A crosswalk signal changing to the walking figure is the film's final image, and the credits roll at once. Rosario has just shouted to Carlitos not to cross yet.
Q 05Which Ugly Betty cast member plays Martha, who drives Carlitos over the border in Under the Same Moon?
America Ferrera
America Ferrera plays one of two Mexican-American students who hide Carlitos in their minivan. Her Emmy for Ugly Betty was the first for a Latina in a lead comedy role.
Q 06Which crop is Carlitos helping to pick when immigration officers raid the farm in Under the Same Moon?
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are being picked when officers storm the farm, and nearly every worker is caught or flees. Carlitos gets away with Enrique, who at first wants nothing to do with him.
Q 07At which American film festival did Under the Same Moon premiere to a standing ovation in January 2007?
Sundance
Sundance hosted the world premiere, and two distributors joined forces to buy the film at the festival.
Q 08The director of Under the Same Moon later made which film about Chile's trapped miners of 2010?
The 33
The 33 retells the 69 days that Chilean miners spent underground in the San José Mine. Antonio Banderas plays the miner Mario Sepúlveda.
Q 09Whose death pushes nine-year-old Carlitos to leave Mexico alone in Under the Same Moon?
His grandmother
His grandmother dies in her sleep, and Carlitos is the one who finds her. He had lived with her since Rosario left for the United States.
Q 10Rosario comes close to marrying a United States citizen in Under the Same Moon in order to get what?
A green card
A green card would let Rosario live and work legally, so a friend talks her into the wedding. She backs out just before the ceremony.
Q 11Which telenovela star plays Rosario, the mother at the heart of Under the Same Moon?
Kate del Castillo
Kate del Castillo had been famous in Mexico since she starred in the 1991 telenovela Muchachitas as a teenager.
Q 12In which Texas border city does Carlitos climb out of the smugglers' car and lose his cash in Under the Same Moon?
El Paso
El Paso faces Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande, and that is the crossing the smugglers use. Carlitos drops his cash in a lot there without noticing.
Q 13What happens to the smugglers' vehicle soon after it carries Carlitos into Texas in Under the Same Moon?
It is towed away
Q 21Which Guadalajara-born filmmaker made her feature directing debut with Under the Same Moon?
Patricia Riggen
Patricia Riggen also produced the film herself, which she said gave her control over every decision. Her earlier work was two half-hour shorts that she financed on her own.
Q 22How is Checco Varese, who shot Under the Same Moon without pay, related to the film's director?
Her husband
Her husband worked for nothing and got the production free cameras. The director called herself lucky to have him as cinematographer.
Q 23The screenwriter of Under the Same Moon was head writer of which Nick Jr. cartoon about rescuing animals?
Go, Diego, Go!
It is towed away by police over offences that have nothing to do with the hidden passenger. Carlitos is inside it at the time, and is cut off from the people paid to deliver him.
Q 14To which Arizona city do Enrique and Carlitos hitchhike after fleeing the farm raid in Under the Same Moon?
Tucson
Tucson is where an angry Enrique tells Carlitos to leave, then changes his mind. The pair stay on and find work in the city.
Q 15Which absent relative does Carlitos track down in Arizona, only to be let down, in Under the Same Moon?
His father
His father, Oscar, promises to help and then walks away from him. The meeting only happens because Enrique helps Carlitos find the man.
Q 16The East Los Angeles address Carlitos carries for Rosario in Under the Same Moon turns out to be what?
A PO box
A PO box is all that Carlitos and Enrique find, so they have to comb the city on foot. Their only guide is the way Rosario once described a single street corner.
Q 17Where does Carlitos win jobs for both himself and Enrique after they reach Arizona in Under the Same Moon?
A restaurant
A restaurant takes them both on thanks to Carlitos, not the grown-up. Until then Enrique had wanted to be rid of his young companion.
Q 18What happens to Enrique after he distracts two police officers so Carlitos can run in Under the Same Moon?
He is arrested
He is arrested, giving up his own freedom so that Carlitos can get away. It happens on the very morning that Carlitos finally reaches Rosario.
Q 19Which veteran actress plays Carlitos's employer, who runs a people-smuggling business, in Under the Same Moon?
Carmen Salinas
Carmen Salinas appeared in more than a hundred films and later sat in Mexico's Chamber of Deputies. Her character in the film shares her first name.
Q 20Before playing Carlitos in Under the Same Moon, Adrián Alonso was the hero's son in which swashbuckler?
The Legend of Zorro
The Legend of Zorro cast him as Joaquin, the masked hero's son, opposite Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Go, Diego, Go! follows Dora the Explorer's eight-year-old cousin. Its head writer drafted the migrant drama seven years before the cameras rolled.
Q 24Which specialty studio joined The Weinstein Company to release Under the Same Moon in United States cinemas?
Fox Searchlight
Fox Searchlight shared the United States release, which opened on 19 March 2008. A sister company handled Mexico a day later.
Q 25Shot in five weeks on a shoestring budget, Under the Same Moon went on to gross roughly how much worldwide?
$23 million
$23 million was the worldwide total, from a budget the director put at $1.7 million. Just over half of it came from North American cinemas.
Q 26The actor who plays Enrique in Under the Same Moon later played a choir teacher in which Best Picture winner?
CODA
CODA gave him the part of the choirmaster who pushes a deaf family's hearing daughter to sing. It won all three Oscars it was nominated for.
Q 27The director of Under the Same Moon went on to make which Disney Channel musical about a band formed in detention?
Lemonade Mouth
Lemonade Mouth, adapted from a Mark Peter Hughes novel, brought her a Directors Guild nomination for children's programmes. Bridgit Mendler and Naomi Scott were among its young stars.
Q 28What animal name is given to the border smugglers Carlitos pays in Under the Same Moon?
Coyotes
Coyotes is the everyday word for people who smuggle migrants over the Mexico–United States border. English borrowed it from Mexican Spanish.
Q 29What work does Rosario do in Los Angeles to support Carlitos back home in Under the Same Moon?
Cleaning houses
Cleaning houses and minding children is how Rosario earns the cash she sends home. One wealthy employer treats her unjustly, and she loses that job.
Q 30Which star of the 2006 indie drama Quinceañera plays David, a student smuggler in Under the Same Moon?
Jesse Garcia
Jesse Garcia grew up in small-town Wyoming and went to college on a cheerleading scholarship. He later starred in Flamin' Hot as the man who claimed to have invented a spicy snack.