Film: A Better Life

A new film, A Better Life, tells the story of a gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.  As John Horn of the L.A. Times observes,  

“one of the central themes of `A Better Life,’ which premieres Tuesday at the Los Angeles Film Festival and opens in limited release on Friday, is that . . . easy options [to common problems] aren’t available to illegal immigrants. {Undocumented immigrants] may collectively sustain the mansions of Los Angeles, `A Better Life’ argues, but individually they are as vulnerable as a house of cards.”

KJ