Deported and stuck in Tijuana without an ID and barely able to speak Spanish he does anything he can to make money so he can pay a coyote to take him back across the border. In the truck, a fellow deportee calls him a “pocho pendejo.” It’s a predicament all U.S.-born Latinos can relate to both at home and in our parent’s country we’re considered foreigners. As the INS officer throws him in a truck Rudy yells, “I’m an American citizen!” It doesn’t matter, they don’t believe him since he left his wallet at home and doesn’t have an ID on him. When Rudy shows up at the factory he gets caught in an immigration raid. His mom (Lupe Ontiveros) is going out of town and instructs him to pick up his cousin Javier (Paul Rodriguez) from a toy factory in downtown Los Angeles. Rudy Robles (played by Marin) lives at home with his mom and sister and works at an auto body shop. Synopsis By: Kiko MartinezĬheech Marin showed the world that he’s more than just the stoner from the Cheech and Chong movies by writing, directing, and starring in this clever comedy. When Ritchie’s mom hears the news of her son’s death and screams out, “Not my Ritchie,” be ready to grab the tissue box.
Unless you have a heart of steel, the final scenes in La Bamba are some of the most heartbreaking you will ever see. As most people know, Valens, along with fellow rock ‘n’ rollers Buddy Holly and “The Big Bopper” Richardson, were killed when their chartered airplane crashed on February 3, 1959. The film stars honorary Latino Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens (born Richard Valenzuela), an American singer/songwriter/guitarist who broke through the rock ‘n’ roll ranks to become one of the most exciting new recording artists in 1958 with hits songs such as “Come On, Let’s Go” and “La Bamba.” The writer/director Valdez tells the story of Valens and his breakout success along with his tumultuous relationship with his brother Bob (Esai Morales), who was both proud and a bit jealous of his younger brother’s accomplishments. “The day the music died” and all the events leading up to that fateful day are portrayed through a beautiful narrative in Luis Valdez’s 1987 drama La Bamba. When will we find a home, Enrique? Maybe when we die, we’ll find a home.” Synopsis By: Kiko Martinez And here in the north, we aren’t accepted. One of most powerful quotes of the film comes when Rosa says, “In our own land, we have no home. In the final chapter, the duo makes it to the U.S but find that life is more difficult that what they had expected, especially since they are undocumented. In the second part, Rosa and Enrique try to cross the Mexican border with the help of a coyote. In the first part of the film, the siblings, Rosa and Enrique (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and Ernesto Gómez Cruz), escape Guatemala after their father is killed by government troops and their mother disappears. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, told the three-part story of two Guatemalan immigrants, a brother and sister, who travel north through Mexico in hopes of reaching Los Angeles to start a new life. The film, which would be selected only 10 years later for preservation in the U.S.
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Director Gregory Nava made movie history when his 1983 film El Norte became the first American independent picture to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay ( Places in the Heart won that year).