...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (movie)

Name: ...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
Director: Severo Perez
Released: 1995-4-5
Rating: 5.333
Cast: Jose Alcala, Rose Portillo, Art Bonilla, Marco Rodríguez, Lupe Ontiveros

User score: 5.3
Production country: United States of America
Producer: Severo Perez
Production companies: Tierra Voz Producciones (I), American Playhouse, KPBS, Kino International
Genre: Drama
Release date: 5/5/1995
Run time: 99 min.

Movie description

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.