...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
Movie| Title | ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him |
| User score | 5.3 |
| Release date | May 5, 1995 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Director | Severo Perez |
| Production country | United States of America |
| Production companies | Tierra Voz Producciones (I), American Playhouse, KPBS, Kino International |
| Run time | 99 min. |
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.
