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A Better Life (2011)

★ 7.2 · 287 ratings on TMDB

Every father wants more for his son.

A Better Life poster★ 7.2

A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.

DirectorChris Weitz
CastBobby Soto, Carlos Linares, Chelsea Rendon, Demián Bichir, Dolores Heredia, Gabriel Chavarria
GenresDrama
The emergence reading

A Better Life keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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