My Family
by Gregory Nava
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Actor: Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Ivette Reina, Jimmy Smits, Rafael Cort?sDirector: Gregory Nava
Writer: Gregory Nava
Producer: Anna Thomas
Writer: Anna Thomas
Producer: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Guy East
Producer: Laura Greenlee
Producer: Lindsay Law
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of My Family
Movie Review: One of the best films I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
Even though I just finished watching this movie five minutes ago, it was so moving that I had to write a review ASAP.The story is a timeline piece about a Mexican-American family in California. It starts off with the story of the parents, then their children.
What I really liked about this film is that it was very emotional. In the beginning of the film, which starts of in the 1930's, the mother (played by Jennifer Lopez) is unlawfully sent back to Mexico as an illegal alien. She is actually an American but because of the political/racial situtions during that time, she is not given justice.
She lives with an elderly aunt and vows to travel by foot thousands of miles away to go back to California to be reunited with her husband and two other children. The story could stop there but it doesn't. The film gets really good as we watch the mother walk through deserts, rainy fields, and then almost drowns in a raging river while looking for her baby which has floated away. I've never seen such a struggle of survival displayed on screen like that. Imagine a woman swimming in water while looking for a her baby who may or may not have drowned.Thankfully the baby turns up.
Next we switch to a scene where six elderly Mexican shaman women, situated in surrounded in a dark room filled with candles and pictures of the Virgin Mary, praying over the baby and asking the Spirit of the raging river not to take his life. The mother sits to the side crying and praying for God to spare her child.
Of course much more happens in the film but it's so deep I can't go into detail. Maybe I might write another review later, but I had to express some words about the film now.I'm so glad I saw it and I hope you enjoy it as well.
Summary of My Family
Three-generational epic saga of the Sanchez family as told by the eldest son.Drama DVD Video
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