A Better Life PG-13
An Exploration of Joy & Meaning in a World Without God
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 2014
- Label: Summit Inc/Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Demián Bichir, Dolores Heredia & José Julián | |
| Performer: | Joaquín Cosío & Nancy Lenehan | |
| Directed by | Chris Weitz | |
| Edited by | Peter Lambert | |
| Screenplay by | Eric Eason | |
| Composition by | Alexandre Desplat | |
| Story by | Roger L. Simon | |
| Cameo: | Eddie 'Piolin' Sotelo | |
| Director of Photography: | Javier Aguirresarobe |
Entertainment Reviews:
By keeping things simple and understated, Weitz and screenwriter Eric Eason have crafted a little gem where humanity is observed with compassion, not condescension.
Hollywood Reporter
5 stars out of 5 -- The timing is right for this remarkable and riveting family drama which puts a human face on the hot-button topic of immigration in such effective and emotional terms that you may never look at the subject in the same way again.
Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]ts obvious debt to BICYCLE THIEVES is repaid with sincere sentiment and strong acting.
Total Film
The story is an urgent one and its frame is well chosen.
Movieline
[A] gently understated tale....[Bichir's] performance -- much of it in subtitled Spanish -- is all the affecting for being utterly unshowy.
Sight and Sound
[A]n emotionally resonant film about how we live now....A BETTER LIFE involves a struggle to hold onto a home of one's own.
New York Times
3 stars out of 4 -- Chris Weitz cuts deep in this tale....This movie will get under your skin.
Rolling Stone
A BETTER LIFE is must-see viewing, poignantly revealing what it's like living confined to the shadows of contemporary society.
USA Today
Product Description:
ABOUT A BOY director Chris Weitz takes the helm for this affecting drama about an illegal immigrant who struggles to give his teenage son a better life by working as a gardener in L.A. Determined to move out of the city in order to get his son away from gangs and into a decent school, the devoted father comes into possession of a truck that allows him to earn a better income by taking more gardening jobs. But with immigration agents on every corner and vicious gangsters trying to lure his son into a life of crime, it's a constant struggle just to survive in such an unforgiving city without being deported. Demián Bichir, José Julián, and Dolores Heredia star in a film written by Eric Eason (JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT).
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 79,871
- UPC: 025192108457
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