My Family

My Family

Actors:  Edward James Olmos, Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales, Jennifer Lopez, Jacob Vargas, Constance Marie Directors:  Gregory Nava

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930s. They establish their family in East L.A., and their children Chucho, Paco, Memo, Irene, Toni, and Jimmy deal with youth culture and the L.A....