A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.8/10   

Director:

Sergio Arau

Escritores:

Sergio Arau (writer)
Yareli Arizmendi (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

6 agosto 2004 (Mexico)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Fantasía | Misterio

Frase comercial:

On May 14 there will be no Mexicans in California.

Plot:

One day California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably dissappeared, chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue.

Plot Keywords:

Mexican | Border | Musician | Senator | Scientist

Premios:

3 wins & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Day Without A Mexican is Terrific!!

Reparto

Caroline Aaron	...	Aunt Gigi
Tony Abatemarco	...	Talk Show Host
Melinda Allen	...	Ellen Abercombie (as Melinda R. Allen)
Frankie J. Allison	...	Oficer Carr (as Frankie Jay Allison)
Fernando Arau	...	Undocumented 1
Yareli Arizmendi	...	Lila Rodriguez
Todd Babcock	...	Nick
Maria Beck	...	Officer Sanchez
Yeniffer Behrens	...	Suzy
Arell Blanton	...	Chris
Cassidy Paige Bringas	...	Tracy Abercrombie
Brian Brophy	...	Barney Montana
Pilar Camporredondo	...	Lila's Mom (as Maria Camporredondo Neeley)
Elpidia Carrillo	...	Cata
Larry Carroll	...	Newscaster

También conocida como:

Un día sin méxicanos (Mexico)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and brief sexuality.

Duración:

USA:100 min | Argentina:100 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

País:

USA | Mexico | Spain

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Brazil:12 | Argentina:16 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

San Diego, California, USA

Compañía:

Eye On The Ball Films

Trivialidades:

The scenes on the empty San Diego streets were shot on 1 January, when there are few people about, because the production was unable to pay for closing them.

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: The scenes in Stockton, California show orange groves in the background. There are no orange groves in Stockton.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: The Christmas Show (#1.11)" (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Bent Nail

A Day Without A Mexican is Terrific!!

I am a California native and Mexican-American. I lived in California for most of my life and I know how dependent we are on ALL Hispanics. Some people seem to misunderstand that this movie was only about Mexican's disappearing and what the result of that would be. If you watch closely, you will see it was about ALL Hispanic's in California (both central and south America, Puerto Rican's and whoever else). Initially it zero's in on a phenomena that occurred as a fog envelops the borders of CA and Mexican's initially disappear but as time goes by you realize all Hispanics from the well educated to the poor disappear. Most people don't want to realize that much of what is portrayed (Latino's in 'worker bee' jobs from nannies to field workers to grocery workers) is TRUE and don't want to be reminded that if something like that should happen, California and many other areas would be affected. I now live in Maine for the last two years and was shocked to realize that illegal Latino's are shipped up here from the border to do the field work for the blueberry and cranberry fields (the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world is here in Maine) and of course they are 'invisible' in every way possible in a 99% white community (look it up). This movie is a satire...a dark comedy that initially looks silly and superficial but that's the POINT...to exaggerate in order to get a message across. Fabulous movie!