Emilio

Emilio

🎞️ Movie 102 min US
โ˜… 7.6 /10 2008

'Emilio' is the soulful tale of a young man (19 years) who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest. The City of Angels itself becomes in a sense the second character of this movie as Emilio's needle-in-a-haystack search takes him through the gritty contrasts of Skid Row, East L.A., Echo Park, Watts, Torrance, Venice Beach, Beverly Hills, and the West Hollywood hills. The panorama of characters he encounters include Mexican day laborers, drug dealers, transients, skateboarders, disco queens, actors, and upwardly mobile socialites constituting at once a searing social criticism and celebration of a city. As it moves towards its inexorable conclusion, this coming of age story comes into its own above all as an heroic portrait of determination.

Cast

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Walter Perez
Emilio
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Danny Socorro Martinez
Jose
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Alejandro Patiño
Fausto
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Wendell Wright
Bearded Bum
Jason Seitz
Jason Seitz
Punk
Toussaint Waterman
Toussaint Waterman
Assistant District Attorney Robles
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Barry Sigismondi
Detective Applewhite
Deborah Png
Deborah Png
Korean Women
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Steven Littles
Spevlin
Eduardo Enríkez
Eduardo Enríkez
Victor
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Tree Adams
Composer
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Denis Maloney
Cinematographer