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Release Date
13 March 1992
Budget
$16,000,000
US Box Office
$13,000,000
Tagline
In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.
Genre
Country
USA
Filming Locations
Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language
Sound Mix
Color
Film Type
Film Class
Mood
Themes
Tones
Tags
Ambition,
Bad Guy Turns Good,
Gangster,
Going Straight,
Kill,
Love,
One Against Odds,
Prison,
Rampage,
Romance,
Self Discovery
Wikipedia
American Me is a 1992 film directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the movie's main character. The executive producer was Lou Adler, a record producer. It depicts a fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s.
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