A coming-of-age tale featuring a teen (Cierra Ramirez) and an absentee mom (Eva Mendes). Patricia Riggens directed; with Matthew Modine and Patricia Arquette.
Patricia Riggen’s illegal-immigrant ordeal is a virtual heart-tugging machine, tugging on it at regular and frequent intervals, so that you learn, like an experimental rat, to cringe in anticipation. The agony begins immediately. A camera-friendly single mom (Kate del Castillo) in East L.A., making her weekly payphone call to her …