Review of Born in East L.A. (1987) by Richard Harrington for Washington Post — 30 Apr 2000
In Born in East L.A., Marin plays it mostly for cheap laughs and only an occasional touch of pathos. In other words, he's taken the easy way out. And the script is so sketchy, the scenes so disconnected and the ideas so vacuous (even for Marin) that Born in East L.
A. is in desperate need of a center it never finds in its 75 unfocused minutes. The film is a series of skits, blackouts and punchlines, but finished it's not.
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This review of Born in East L.A. (1987) was written by Richard Harrington and published by Washington Post on 30 Apr 2000.
Born in East L.A. has generally received mixed reviews.
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