Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez

When Cheech Marin is accidently deported to Mexico without i.d. or knowledge of Spanish and unable to convince U.S. officials to let him back in the U.S., the comedy begins. In between unsuccessful ...( read more  read more... )schemes to cross the border he gets duped by a dippy doorman, picked on by prison pals, and smitten by a senorita.

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R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Cheech Marin

Release Date: August 21, 1987

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DVD Release Date: April 7, 1998

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  • September 28, 2009
    Nice idea, not a brilliant film but I do like Cheech, he's entertaining and very watchable!
  • August 8, 2007
    Somewhat funny, but Cheech keeps hammering the title point "Born in East L.A." over our heads until it's annoying.
  • February 19, 2007
    "If you want to be cool, first you pull your headband into the cool position. Then you just lean back, put this hand in your pocket and then you wave this hand behind you like you just cut one and you're trying to shoo away the steeench."
  • January 22, 2007
    pretty good movie
  • December 17, 2006
    Cheech was pretty good in this but missed Chong together they're awesome.
  • October 23, 2009
    I really like this movie but the DVD I bought had a big chunk of the movie cut out.I wonder why????
  • September 26, 2009
    This movie is soooooooooooooooooooooo hilarious
  • August 4, 2009
    swagger like cheech lols i love this movie
  • July 27, 2009
    This was a funny movie..."
  • June 27, 2009
    the attempts to get back to the states is pretty damn funny. But the truth is so sad.

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