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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

Drama | 1995-05-05 | United States of America

IMDB5.3 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime99 min.

A haunting remembrance of Chicano family life in the 1950s

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.

Tierra Voz Producciones (I)
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American Playhouse
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Kino International

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