What Is ‘American Me’ About?
American Metells the story of three friends, Montoya Santana, J.D.
The three friends find themselves resorting to committing crimes and are sent to juvenile hall.
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There, Montoya is sexually assaulted.
Friends are hard to come by in Boston.
Montoya is released in 1977, into a radically different world than he left.
A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.
The gang captures and rapes their rival’s son, which leads to an all-out war.
He ultimately ends upback in prisonwhere his gang murders him for trying to leave.
I knew I had to make that movie, in some way.
Regarding the role of Machismo in gang life, Olmos explained, “Machismo isnt necessarily a bad thing.
That pride, that self-esteem, that belief in self, it can be very positive.
But when it turns bad, boy, watch out.
It can be a killer.
Joe ‘Pegleg’ Morgan, the real-life gangster the character J. Olmos also reportedly received multiple death threats.
She was shot execution style, in the back of the head, by two gunmen in ski masks.
A federal indictment alleged that La Eme orchestrated the assignation, angry at Lizarraga’s contributions to the film.
American Meis currently available to stream on Prime Video in the U.S.
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