Cheech Marin

Narrated by Cheech Marin and scored by Ry Cooder, this half-hour documentary captures how a community was betrayed by greed, political hypocrisy, and good intentions gone astray. Don Normark's hauntin...( read more  read more... )g photographs evoke a lost Mexican-American village in the heart of downtown LA, razed in the 1950's to build an enormous low-income housing project. Instead, the federally purchased land was used for Dodger Stadium.

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Unrated, 30 min

Directed by: Jordan Mechner

Release Date: January 1, 2003

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  • October 31, 2008
    It's amazing what you can get away with if you have enough money. An important story, not at all hampered by Ry Cooder's score.

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