My Family Movie

My Family
Rating:
Run Time: 125 min
MPAA Rating: R
Released: 1995
Directors: Gregory Nava
Genre/Type: Drama
Period Film
Family Drama
Ensemble Film
Producers: Anna Thomas
Laura Greenlee
Plot Synopsis by Matthew Tobey
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 nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her performance. My Family has also been released under the titles My Family, Mi Familia, Cafe Con Leche, and East L.A.

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Cast

Actors Character Born
Susana Campos Little Irene
Bruce Gray Mr. Gillespie
Samuel Hernandez Mariachi
Rosalee Mayeux Maria's Employer
Delana Michaels Judge
Jimmy Smits Jimmy Sanchez Jul 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Michael Tomlinson Dr. McNally
DeDee Pfeiffer Karen Gillespie
Bibi Besch Mrs. Gillespie Feb 1, 1940 in Vienna, Austria
Abel Woolrich Ox Cart Driver
Amelia Zapata Roberto's Girlfriend
Elpidia Carrillo Isabel Magana
Jenny Gago Maria Sanchez
Mary Steenburgen Gloria Feb 8, 1953 in Newport, AR
Jacob Vargas Young Jose Sanchez
Enrique J. Castillo Memo Sanchez
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Review by Michael Costello
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 accepted in their new country while retaining a pride in their ethnic identity. Although the film is at times sentimental with a plot that verges on soap opera, it's impossible not to be swept up in the lives of characters that are written and played with such passion and complexity. Dwelling on the divergent character types within José's family unit, from the hotheaded Chuco (Esai Morales) to the tortured Jimmy (Jimmy Smits) to the calmer Paco (Edward James Olmos), a writer who functions as the film's narrator, Nava rings plangent changes on a universally familiar theme. The film is also blessed by the plenary talents of cinematographer Ed Lachman (The Limey [1999], Erin Brockovich [2000]), whose lyrical use of light is one of its great pleasures.

My Family on TV

Zip Code: 10010 · Provider: Verizon Fios Freehold NY Plus-Digital (Jersey City) Edit
Sat , 10:30 PM ET · My Family  · Channel 23 · WNJN · Duration: 30 min.
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