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'Fruits of Labor' Review: A Mexican American Family's Struggles in Central California


Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California
Fruits of Labor Review: A Mexican American Family s Struggles in Central California
Emily Cohen Ibanez s documentary is an intriguing look at the heavily responsibilities borne by an undocumented immigrant s teen daughter.
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Running time: Running time: 77 MIN.
Gabriella Garcia-Pardo
Those who complain “immigrants are stealing our jobs” hardly seem likely applicants for the jobs held by protagonists in “Fruits of Labor” such as cleaning other people’s houses or working the graveyard shift in a food processing plant. Constant hard work doesn’t seem to bring the American Dream much closer for this Mexican American family on California’s central coast. Emily Cohen Ibanez’s debut feature provides a flavorful glimpse at lives seldom represented in popular media, though she also obfuscates that view somewhat w ....

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