Born In East L.A.

This time Cheech is not on the wrong side of the law. He's on the wrong side of the line.

Give us your tired and poor but keep Cheech Marin. Cheech Marin writes, directs, and stars in Born in East L.A., a hip, outrageous comedy that's based on his best selling record parody. The story follows Rudy (Marin), an American of Hispanic descent, whose south of the border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico- without speaking a word of Spanish! Unable to contact his vacationing family or his newly immigrated cousin (played by Paul Rodriguez), Rudy is in for a crazy ride as he tries every legal- and illegal- scheme he can think of to get back home to the States. He finds himself in jail, in love, and practically insane! Trouble follows him everywhere as he runs from la migra in this case of mistaken- or rather misplaced- identity.