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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #609
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A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1977
Special features: New high-definition digital restoration; New audio commentary featuring director Robert M. Young and Michael Hausman; New interview with actor Edward James Olmos (Stand and deliver); Children of the Fields, a 1973 short documentary by Young, plus new interview; Trailer; Plus, a booklet featuring an essay by film historian Charles Ramirez-Berg
Director of photography, Robert M. Young; art director, Lilly Kilvert ; original version film editor, Edward Beyer; music, José B. Cuellar ... [et al.] ; editor, Norman Buckley
Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillin, Ned Beatty, Jerry Hardin, Julius Harris, Edward James Olmos
Rating: Not rated
DVD, NTSC, widescreen, 1.66:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital Stereo
In English and Spanish with optional English subtitles