American Me
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- Genre: Movies • Biography • Crime • Drama • Romance
- Country: United States
- Premier: 13 Mar 1992 (USA)
- Director:Edward James Olmos
- WriterFloyd Mutrux, Desmond Nakano
- Stars:Sal Lopez, Vira Montes, Roberto Martín Márquez, Dyana Ortelli, Joe Aubel, Rob Garrett
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Original Title:
American Me
Tagline: In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.
Storyline
This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen years there, and becomg leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it.
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