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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1987 DVD Release: 05/01/2001 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 24 mins Studio: GT Media Total Copies: 5 Genres: Comedy, Parody/Spoof, Satire, Comedy of Errors See Also: Born in East L.A.

Richard "Cheech" Marin, of Cheech & Chong fame, directed and starred in Born in East L.A.. Inspired by Marin's music-video parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA", the film casts Cheech as an East Los Angeles repairman. While paying a visit to a sweatshop toy factory, Cheech is caught in the middle when the feds raid the place and cart off all the illegal alien workers. Since he's forgotten to bring his own i.d., Cheech is also shipped off to Mexico-where, having next to no knowledge of the Spanish tongue, he's virtually helpless. Desperate, he takes a job with crooked Tijuana saloon owner Daniel Stern-the first of many "make-do" jobs that he assumes to earn enough money to return home. Along the way, he falls in love with El Salvadorian girl Kamala Lopez, whose English is as fractured as Cheech's Spanish. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cheech Marin - Rudy Robles
Paul Rodriguez - Javier
Daniel Stern - Jimmy
Kamala Lopez - Dolores
Jan-Michael Vincent - McCalister