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Born In East L.A.Rating:
Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $13.48 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (8 total) |
Born In East L.A. Reviews
Cheech at his best
I haven't seen the DVD version, so I can only blab on and on about movie itself. A classic! Cheech is definitely influenced by a bit of Chaplin...not so much for the physical comedy but for his tramp-like persona who ends up warming the characters' and audience's hearts. Political themes, too...the Reagan-era round 'em up policies that did, in fact, ensnare citizens and permanent residents along with undocumented residents. The beginning shows how the INS busted the workers (and Cheech's Rudy), not the owner of the manufacturing plant.
Rudy also grows as an individual. He was living with his mom (the always good, when not typecast, Lupe Ontiveros), checking out French women after a failed marriage in Germany. By the end of the film, he's in love with a hard working Latina and is no longer the self-centered loaf he once was.
And funny! Tony Plano as Feo (and damn he's f'ugly!), Paul Rodriguez as cousin Javier ("Jesus esta en Tijuana???") and Daniel Stern as the wily, entrepeneureal Jimmy round off the cast of sillies.
Great movie if it was complete.
I bought the Goodtimes version used and was disapointed the end was cut. Ipicked up the Universal version and found out it was also missing the last part of the movie. 5 stars for the original version, 0 stars for these versions.
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