The read
Scores higher than 89% of the 1,486 1990s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes79%
88 audience votes
Key crew
- Gregory NavaDirector
- Gregory NavaWriter
Cast
- Edward James OlmosPaco
- Jimmy SmitsJimmy
- Esai MoralesChucho
- Jennifer LopezYoung Maria
- Jacob VargasYoung Jose
- Constance MarieToni
- Jonathan HernandezYoung Jimmy
- Jenny GagoMaria
- Eduardo López RojasJose
- Rafael CortésRoberto
- Mary SteenburgenGloria
- Scott BakulaDavid Ronconi
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Themes
immigrantmarriagefamily relationshipslos angeles, californiafamilydeath of wife