"Emilio" "Emilio Trailer" - First Look "Emilio" - In Movie Theaters April 24, 2009
"Emilio" - The movie "Emilio" is the soulful tale of a nineteen year old boy who leaves his village in Mexico looking for his kidnapped sister. His journey leads him to Los Angeles, where we see the city through the eyes of a penniless illegal immigrant on a desperate quest. The City of Angels itself becomes in a sense the second character of this movie as Emilio's needle-in-a-haystack search takes him through the gritty contasts of Skid Row, East L.A., Echo Park, Watts, Torrance, Venice Beach, Beverly Hills, and the West Hollywood hills. The panorama of characters he encounters include Mexican day laborers, drug dealers, transients, skateboarders, disco queens, actors, and upwardly mobile socialites constituting at once a searing social criticism and celebration of a city. As it moves towards its inexorable conclusion, this coming of age story comes into its own above all as an heroic portrait of determination.
STARRING: Walter Perez, Danny Martinez, Alejandro Patino
DIRECTOR: Kim Jorgensen
STUDIO: Landmark Films
RATING: R (For language, adult situations, violence)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): TBD
RUNNING TIME:
TBD
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD
LANGUAGE: Spanish (English subtitles)
