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My Family

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My Family
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R,2hrs 5min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1995
Director:
Gregory Nava
Distributor:
New Line Home Video
Starring:
Scott Bakula, Bibi Besch, Susana Campos  ...more
Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a recently immigrated married couple raising a family. As Jose and Maria age, the focus shifts to their son, Jimmy (Jimmy Smits), as he starts his own family in the 1960s. While Lopez' role was uncredited, she was ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Costello, AMG Review
Gregory Nava's sprawling multi-generational saga of 60 years in the life of a Mexican family living in the U.S. is a tumultuous, funny, and moving experience. As the film traces the Sanchez family's history from the arrival of patriarch José Eduardo Lopez Rojas in Los Angeles through the gang wars and Salvadoran death squads of the 1980s, Nava focuses on the constant struggle of the immigrants to be ... Full Review
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Jacob Vargas
Young Jose Sanchez
Edward James Olmos
Paco, the Narrator, Paco,the Narrator
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