American Me

Genre: Drama

Worldwide gross$13.1M

This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen years there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it.

🏆 3 wins & 3 nominations total

Genres

Biography, Crime, Drama

Director

Edward James Olmos

Cast

Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Sal Lopez

Released

13 March 1992

Runtime

2h 5m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.1 / 10

Votes

11,442

Metascore

66

Rotten Tomatoes

73%

Box office

$13,086,430

Budget

$16,000,000

Edition

Base