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StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

eusebio This was a moving film and which I familiarized,through Latinos in the Pacific Northwest, and purposely finish acquiring a copy. Quite hidden wisdom about Hispanic-Latinos & Chicanos that their new generations should know. Strongly recommended it for all the Hispanic-Latinos and Chicanos.I once had the opportunity to greet Edward James Olmos at Portland State University and gave me a very good impression. Since the mid-eighties that I follow Mr.Olmos and always amazes his great work as an actor and writer who has mostly been to educate new generations of Hispanic-Latinos. I also wish to thank Michael Peña for his great performance and who did not get a chance to meet but we were at a dinner in December,2015.

mirillustration The writing and dialogue is terrible, and the casting is worse. Alexa Vega (who plays Paula) is half Columbian and half white. English is her first language. They gave her one of those orange fake tans in a sorry attempt to make her look more Hispanic... which is VERY perturbing in a movie that is supposed to be a historical account of racism against Hispanic. I mean really, you couldn't find ONE Mexican actress in LA?? The perpetuation of Hispanic stereotypes is nauseating, not to mention insulting, and the movie plays out in a way that makes it look like the only thing the Hispanic community in LA does is sit around talking about being "chicano."

mlinares I absolutely loved this film. While watching it I admired the work that Paula and the other students did to better their schools. They became role models for me. Afterwards, anger arose in me. Anger that I had to learn about the Chicano movement in a "made for TV" movie. Instead of in my classroom, during a unit focused on the civil rights movement. In our class we learned about the Montgomery bus boycott, about Rosa Parks, and about the Little Rock Integration in Central High. Cesar Chaves was mentioned briefly, if not at all. One of the reasons that the kids walked out was so that classrooms contained Hispanic history and culture. Unfortunately, in the Madison School District, our history has not been incorporated into the course curriculum. Its disappointing to know that the fight is still going and that in many ways its improved but in others it hasn't.

ajhidel I have seen this movie 3times on HBO and once with the producer and his daughter taking questions. In between there have been school walkouts in LA County to protest inflammatory legislation in Congress that though it would never pass would have made felons out of the undocumented. Whereas in 1968 protests were for the right to know about La Raza, and have better educational opportunities, in 2006 the walkouts were chaotic and counterproductive. If only the students of today with their cell-phones, IPods, and video games had one-tenth of the educational focus of the leaders of the "Walkout" of 1968! The historical accuracy of the film suffers from what appears to a "composite" of efforts to suppress Spanish by corporal punishment of earlier generations. In trying to get your message across it does not help to exaggerate history. Nevertheless, the actual walkouts of that time accomplished a lot for Chicanos or Latinos. One has to ask the youth of today, as I have, "To what extent can you blame institutional racism or cultural insensitivity, and totally exempt the individual student of personal responsibility, to echanr ganas para estudiar y seguir adelante? Where do the failures of the system end and self-victimization begin?