A Better Life

(2011)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 289 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2011

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Крис Вайц

Cast: Демиан Бичир, José Julián, Chelsea Rendon, Долорес Эредия, Хоакин Косио, Carlos Linares, Бобби Сото, Нэнси Ленихэн, Габриэль Чаваррия, Тим Гриффин

Plot

An Indigenous Latino American gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

Carlos Galindo is a decent man, a Mexican single parent working as a gardener in California to raise Luis, his fourteen-year-old son, whom Carlos is frightened will drift into local gang culture. Carlos buys a truck for his work with money loaned by his sister but a shifty new employee steals it from him and, though Carlos and Luis track the thief down, he has sold the truck. Father and son bond as they reclaim the vehicle from the pound but Carlos attracts police attention, making his future in America uncertain when it is discovered that he is an undocumented immigrant.