My Family(Movie, 1995)

Name: My Family
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995
Duration: T02:8:00
Rating: 3.8

| 2h 8min | Genres: Comedy, Drama

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 37 votes)

Mi Familia is a 1995 American drama film directed by Gregory Nava, written by Nava and Anna Thomas, and starring Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, and Esai Morales. The film depicts three generations of a Mexican-American family who emigrated from Mexico and settled in East Los Angeles. In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ()

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Awards & Nominations for My Family

nominated for: Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

About My Family

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. police in the '50s. As the second generation become adults in the '60s, the focus shifts to Jimmy, his marriage to Isabel (a Salvadorian refugee), their son, and Jimmy's journey to becoming a responsible parent.

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Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Los Angeles (California)

Made by: New Line Cinema, American Zoetrope, American Playhouse, Newcomb Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES)

Translated into 19 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Vietnamese (VI)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/03/1995

Cast: Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales, Jennifer Lopez, Jacob Vargas, Scott Bakula, Lupe Ontiveros, Maria Canals-Barrera, Mary Steenburgen, Dedee Pfeiffer, Elpidia Carrillo, Thomas Rosales Jr., Constance Marie, Benito Martinez, Bart Johnson, Emilio Rivera, Bruce Gray

Director: Gregory Nava

Producer: Anna Thomas

Screenwriter: Gregory Nava

Executive Producer: Francis Ford Coppola

Film Editor: Nancy Richardson

Director of Photography: Edward Lachman

Composer: Mark McKenzie

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Meine verrückte Familie"

"East L.A."

"I oikogeneia mou"

"Cafe con leche"

"My Family, Mi Familia"

Keywords: family, family relationships, immigrant, death of wife, marriage, los angeles, california

Budget: 5,500,000 USD

Revenue: 11,079,373 USD (= 201%)

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