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American Me (1992)

posted by admin, May 28, 2010 @ 6:32 PM

Movie: American Me (1992)

  • Director: Edward James Olmos
  • Release Date: 13 March 1992 (USA)
  • Run Time: 125 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Biography , Crime , Drama , Romance  

Tagline: In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.

Trivia: The characters of Santana (Olmos), J.D. (Forsythe) and Mundo (Serna) are based on real-life Mexican Mafia leaders Rudy “Cheyenne” Cadena, Joe “Pegleg” Morgan and Roberto “Robot” Salas.
 

“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 year there, and becoming 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. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>”

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