A Better Life

August 18 - 22

Weekdays at 7:30 pm. Weekends a 2:30 & 7:30 pm

PG-13

Every father wants more for his son

From the director of About a Boy comes A Better Life - a touching, poignant, multi-generational story about a father's love and the lengths a parent will go to give his child the opportunities he never had. An illegal immigrant gardener in East Los Angeles struggles to keep his son away from gangs while avoiding immigration enforcement agents and searching for a stolen truck.

Critical response for "A Better Life" has been very positive. The film has garnered an 85% Fresh rating by America's Top Film Critcs (according to the Rottentomatoes web site.) Film critic for The New York Times, Manola Dargis called the film "Touching and startling". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone Magazine called the film "a haunting movie that gets under your skin". Writing for Entertainment Weekly Dave Karger called A Better Life an "unfussy, yet quite powerful drama with a terrific central performance by Demián Bichir." Karger called the film an "awards contender" and wrote, "With the right reviews and commercial reception, it could go even further."