The Democrats Abroad Guadalajara Chapter presents “Born in East L.A.” (United States, 1987) at its next Movie Meet event, Sunday, July 29, 4:30 p.m.
Cheech Marin writes, directs and stars in this hip, outrageous comedy that follows Rudy (Marin), an American-born Hispanic, whose south-of-the-border looks target him during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor ID and he is “returned” to Mexico. Speaking virtually no Spanish, he is reduced to working a variety of jobs for a crooked saloon owner to make the money to pay for his “illegal immigration” back into the United States. Unable to contact his vacationing family, Rudy is in for a crazy ride as he tries every legal — and illegal — scheme he can think of to get back.
The showing is at the American Society of Jalisco (San Francisco 3332, Colonia Chapalita). All welcome.