A haunting remembrance of Chicano family life in the 1950s
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.
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Cast
- Jose AlcalaMarcos
- Rose PortilloFlorentina
- Art BonillaLalo
- Marco RodríguezJoaquin
- Lupe OntiverosDoña Rosa
- Daniel ValdezBartolo
- Evelyn GuerreroLupita
- Sam VlahosDon Cleto
- Sal LopezEl Mohado
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- Severo PerezDirector
- Severo PerezWriter
- Tomás RiveraNovel
- Virgil L. HarperDirector of Photography
- Marcos LoyaOriginal Music Composer
- Susan HeickEditor
- Howard HeardEditor
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