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Running Time
97
min
MPAA rating
PG-13
Release Date
Jun 24, 2011
A Better Life
Determined to give his estranged teenage son a better future, Carlos Riquelme, an illegal immigrant, buys a used truck and gardening equipment to start a business. However, when the truck is stolen, he and his son work together to recover it, reconnecting for the first time in years.
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A movie called “A Better Life’’ could almost only be about immigrants. It’s generic and small but manages to reel you in and surprise you with its grimness. To get there, a few too many coincidences provoke too much unearned emotion (whence so many tears?). But as movies go about East Los Angelenos stealing back their stuff, this one is sincere.
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