Movie My Family: Mexican Jose Sanchez, North California

Movie Review: My Family
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Movie Review: My Family
My family movie starts in Mexico in the year 1926 when the Mexican Jose Sanchez moves to the North California looking for a long time lost relative. While in the North of California he gets a job as a gardener to a wealthy family in the region. He meets Jennifer Lopez who he later marries her. They sire children and during her third pregnancy the immigration officers deport Maria. The illegal deportation back home sets outs a mystical thread of events that run through the movie. Paco the eldest son becomes a great writer while Irene marries and opens a restaurant with her husband. Toni chooses to become a nun but later changes and this comes as a shock to his parents. It comes after he realized his true calling. Guillermo became a successful lawyer. Chucho is presented as a rude young man who is leading aging and has several encounters with the police in his illegal deals of selling marijuana. The youngest son Jimmy also follows the footsteps of Chucho.
The movie has explored the cultural underpinning of the Mexican-American families in a manner that is often ignored in the mainstream media. The movie explores the inner mixture of family clans using humorous and dramatic encounters of the characters. Tragedies and romance concepts as well as families and issues that immigrants face which may not be justified are well explored in the movie. The story outl...