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American Me (1992) 7.2
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7.2/10 from 5,143 users
Metascore: 66/100
Reviews: 45 user | 17 critic | 11 from Metacritic.com A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle. Director:Edward James Olmos |
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Pedro Santana
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Vira Montes | ... |
Esperanza Santana
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Roberto Martín Márquez | ... |
Acha
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Yolanda
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Joe Aubel | ... |
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Rob Garrett | ... |
Zoot Riot Bystander
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Cody Glenn | ... |
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Police Officer
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Panchito Gómez | ... |
Young Montoya Santana
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Albert Joe Medina Jr. | ... |
Street Mechanic
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Alex Solís | ... |
Street Mechanic
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Raymond Amezquita | ... |
Abuelito
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Young JD
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Young Mundo
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This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen year there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
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In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
13 March 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Sans rémission See more »Box Office
Budget:
$16,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$13,086,430 (USA)Company Credits
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Montoya Santana: Who's carrying all the way for them?
J.D.: Dude named El Chucko Pena.
Pie Face: I know that vato. I know him real well.
Montoya Santana: Good, you get this take him.
Pie Face: I say, carnal, me and him shared the same coka many times, ese.
Montoya Santana: That's gonna make easier to get next to him, ese.
Pie Face: He used to be my crime partner. I mean that vato is a real man.
J.D.: Hey what the fuck is wrong with...
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Written by Sly Stone (as Sylvester Stewart)
Performed by Ike & Tina Turner (as Ike and Tina Turner)
Courtesy of EMI Records USA, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
by arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
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Trivia
Rudy "Cheyenne" Cadena was not killed by his own gang as shown in the movie. In reality, he was killed by the Nuestra Familia, the rivals of the Mexican Mafia. As a result of this murder, the Mexican Mafia formed an alliance with the Aryan Brotherhood in 1972, and the Nuestra Familia formed an alliance with the Black Guerilla Family. See more »Goofs
When the Mexican inmates are walking up with the mop and bucket to assassinate the African-American inmate, it shows the African-American inmate laying in just a t-shirt on his bed and in the next scene after hes caught on fire he's wearing his long sleeve button up. See more »Quotes
J.D.: It's too late for that now, homes. They're too big in Vacaville to make a move on. Now they're making a play and shit in Folsom. They gotta pay a bill, ese.Montoya Santana: Who's carrying all the way for them?
J.D.: Dude named El Chucko Pena.
Pie Face: I know that vato. I know him real well.
Montoya Santana: Good, you get this take him.
Pie Face: I say, carnal, me and him shared the same coka many times, ese.
Montoya Santana: That's gonna make easier to get next to him, ese.
Pie Face: He used to be my crime partner. I mean that vato is a real man.
J.D.: Hey what the fuck is wrong with...
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I Want to Take You HigherWritten by Sly Stone (as Sylvester Stewart)
Performed by Ike & Tina Turner (as Ike and Tina Turner)
Courtesy of EMI Records USA, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.
by arrangement with CEMA Special Markets
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This is really a great film, better than its counterpart "Blood In, Blood Out." Olmos does a fine directorial job and acts well, except might have been a little miscast in the part, being that he's supposed to be a young man in his 20s in parts of the film. Outside of that, it's a great movie, violent and disturbing in parts, but thoroughly entertaining. Supposedly the Mexican Mafia wasn't pleased with its portrayal in the film.