The Story:
Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt), an ex-con and recovering alcoholic, who drives a municipal bus, works passionately rebuilding and decorating lowrider cars and, since the death of his young wife many years before, devotes himself as both father and mother to his 17-year-old son, Jesse(Jeremy Ray Valdez), a studious, steadfast, honorable young man (on his way to UCLA), who does his best to follow the straight-and-narrow, when many of his classmates endanger themselves and others with drugs and violence.
But Jesse carries a secret and, because of his high standing in the community and his intolerance for people who are different from him, Che intimidates his son, which prevents Jesse from sharing his true self with his father. One night, Che finds several Polaroid photos showing Jesse in romantic poses with another man—a white man at that--taken at a gay club in the Castro. Che’s violence erupts in response to his son and he kicks the boy out on the street. A neighbor, Lena (Erika Alexander), an African American who works at a women’s shelter, at first quarrels with Che about his use of the sidewalk for repairing his cars, but soon a serious attraction develops between them, and she turns out to be a catalyst for Che’s redemption.
Starring:
Benjamin Bratt, Erika Alexander, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Jesse Borrego, Talisa Soto Bratt
Directed By:
Peter Bratt
Release:
2009
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