A Better Life

Every father wants more for his son

This film examines the issue of illegal immigrants in America. We experience their lives through a hard-working gardener, and his American-born teenage son. The son is dabbling with joining the street gangs, while dad is working like crazy to give his son a better life. Things look up when he buys a truck and tools to expand his business. However the truck is stolen, and he and his son go in search of the thief. This turns into a major education for the boy.

98 minutes.
Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Language).
Drama, On the art circuit

Will I always be in your shadow?

Credits

Cast	Demián Bichir, Eddie 'Piolin' Sotelo, Joaquin Cosio, José Julián, Nancy Lenehan, Gabriel Chavarria
Director	Chris Weitz
Screenplay	Eric Eason, Roger L. Simon
Music	Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography	Javier Aguirresarobe
Editing	Peter Lambert
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2011
Produced by	Depth of Field, Lime Orchard Productions, McLaughlin Films, Witt/Thomas Productions

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequent, moderate
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Brief
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Tina George A heart-rending story	10
Die Burger Laetitia Pople	10
Box Office Pete Hammond The timing is right for this remarkable and riveting family drama which puts a human face on the hot-button topic of immigration in such effective and emotional terms that you may never look at the subject in the same way again.	20
Metacritic.com 30 critics	13
Rottentomatoes critics 91 critics	14
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer	17
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	14
What the People say
Internet 409 Netizens The Invisible Man	13
Average .. 69%	14