Armando Hernadez, Jesus Ochoa, Jorge Adrián Espíndola

Fleeing a criminal past, Juan hops a truck transporting illegal immigrants from Mexico to New York City, where he meets Pedro, who is seeking his rich father.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Christopher Zalla

Release Date: May 16, 2008

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  • July 18, 2009
    The story is sad but true
    Brilliant dialogues and jesus ochoa acting is a masterpiece..
    I hated the ending
  • February 11, 2009
    Sundance 07' Grand Jury Prize
  • January 16, 2009
    I hate when Americans do this type of movies and try to label them "Mexican", especially when it's such crap.

    An immigrant movie in which is really easy to not sympathize with the terrible characters. Basically, every character in this film is either an asshole or impossibly s...( read more)tupid. And then you got "Magda", one of the most unlikable people ever to be put on screen. She's supposed to be, but it was definitely too much. Besides, who talks like that?

    SANGRE DE MI SANGRE, or PADRE NUESTRO, had a good concept but it was lost to poor writing and the awful cast. The fact that actors like Jesús Ochoa, Ernesto Derbez and Armando Hernández still get parts puzzles me.

    I don't see this film appealing to any Latin filmgoer, or at least Mexicans. The only good thing about this film is its interesting, minimalist score.
  • March 3, 2008
    What we have here is an independent film which I think should be given its due credit (it won at Sundance this past year) for its twist on what could be called your tired tale of illegal Mexican immigration, poverty, and drugs. It's much more than this IMHO and here's why:

    I giv...( read more)e credit to the director Christopher Zalla: his debut film, written and directed, probably done on a modest budget, that looks very polished like any almost any other Hollywood-sized drama budget.

    Additionally, this is an American director and production with a nearly all Mexican cast...the scripted dialog was perfectly done (which seems to be difficult for nearly all American productions) and the actors did a fantastic job under Zalla's direction.

    The twist we have here on the illegal Mexican immigration story: identity theft. We have Juan accidentally getting on board a freight truck to NY, who finds hospitality and kindness from Pedro, a Poblano kid seeking his estranged father who he's never known up in the US. Juan takes advantage of the situation and steals Pedro's identity (by taking the letter left to Pedro by his recently deceased mother w/ a family picture and the elder's last known address) and in fact finds the emigrated father.

    Certainly the characters here are presented as nearly too typical of illegal Mexican experience, but really from my own experience meeting Mexicans in the US and the actors portrayal enhanced the believability of the story and wasn't at all cliché. The relationships between characters evolved and you see the harsh reality of lies and selfishness give way to developing friendship and family bonds...even if they are false in every way.



    The film is quite depressing and you want to punch some of the characters...but I think this response from an audience is exactly the sign that a film succeeds in illiciting such an emotional response, this is the desired effect of the story.

    One more point to make: the portrayal of poverty and illegal immigrant life was dead on! There was a line of Juan (while impersonating Pedro) to Diego that he thought that Puebla, Mesico was better than the craphole of an apartment Diego had in NY...they even had color tv in Mexico said Juan when criticizing the small b/w set in the place. That pretty much says it all! There needs to me more films like this to open people's eyes to the human realities of the system we have set up that makes illegal immigration possible and what conditions it creates, rather than just focusing on the word "illegal" and turn a blind eye to everything else.

    Again, my hat's off to Zalla for the success he had in creating this film under some substantial odds. I wouldn't be comparing this film to your other hollywood thug n crime movies. This is an independent voice. One of the best comparisons I can make of Padre Nuestro is to the Mexican film, De la Calle, about life of street kids in Mexico City. But Padre Nuestro is the superior film by far, in terms of entertainment value, acting, script/plot, and production value.
  • January 2, 2008
    me pareció llena de clichés, con un guión flojo, en donde es jorge adrián espíndola el que se alza con la mejor actuación por encima del cucú (armando hernández) y jesús ochoa. no se que haya sido pero sentí que no se proponía nada nuevo y que de una u otra forma cada cosa que oc...( read more)urre en la película, la había visto en algun otro lugar. me pareció larga, con algunos momentos bien estructurados y llevados pero nada más.

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