Hawaii International Film Festival 2009

MAMMOTH revolves around a successful New York couple, Leo (Gael Garcia Bernal, BABEL) and Ellen (Michelle Williams, WENDY AND LUCY). Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives. Their eight-year-old daughter Jackie spends most of her time with her Filipino nanny Gloria, a situation that is making Ellen start to question her priorities. Gloria has come to the USA to earn money to support her family, leaving her two sons behind in the Philippines. One of them, ten-year-old Salvador, is longing for his mother so much that he looks for work himself in order to help with the money and speed up her return. When Leo travels to Thailand on business, he unwittingly sets off a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone.