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Drama. 98 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2011. Roger Ebert. July 6, 2011. 3 min read. Carlos is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who works as a gardener tending the lawns of Los Angeles residents who are rich, especially from his point of view. He lives from hand to mouth and day to day in a tiny house whose garden is used to raise starter plants for ...
A Better Life is directed by Chris Weitz ( About a Boy) from a screenplay by Eric Eason and a story by Roger Simon. It is one of the Most Spiritually Literate films of 2011. From start to finish, we empathize with the yearnings of Carlos, a loving single parent and a hard worker whose humble life is animated by old-fashioned virtues.
Jun 23, 2011 · Making a virtue of simplicity and a vice of melodrama, A Better Life is a well-intentioned stab at something we rarely see in American movie theaters: the low-income family drama. This is a genre ...
Jun 24, 2011 · Movie Review: ‘A Better Life’. Director Chris Weitz’s new drama, “A Better Life,” should be a much better movie than it is, but emotions get in the way. It’s a quintessential L.A ...
Jun 28, 2011 · A Better Life was directed by the eclectic Chris Weitz (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, About a Boy), who weaves the torpor and anxiety of immigrant life into something dramatically true, if at ...
Our review: Parents say ( 3 ): Kids say ( 1 ): When a movie is able to bring to life a politically loaded issue without being suffused with cliches and rhetoric, it's a miracle. That's exactly what A BETTER LIFE accomplishes; it's a nuanced, sensitive, moving examination of the illegal immigrant experience in modern America.
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Jun 15, 2011 · Rated PG-13, 98 minutes. Chris Weitz. Los Angeles Film Festival. By keeping things simple and understated, director Chris Weitz and screenwriter Eric Eason have crafted a little gem where humanity ...
