Filmmaker Gregory Nava crafts a multi-generational epic in My Family, Mi Familia, a film that follows nearly 60 years in the life of a Latino family whose roots in the United States date back to the 1920s. Released in 1995, Nava's film addresses...

My Family (1995) is a American drama film directed by Gregory Nava and written by Nava and Anna Thomas. The film is also known as My Family/Mi Familia. The motion picture stars Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, Esai Morales and others. It also features...

So it’s a double issue week at Observer world headquarters, which for just about everyone means a vacation week. (Except, I’m told, for the prolific Azi, to whom the term “vacation week” means “time in which I only file 800 stories, instead of my usual...

Some day someone should make a Schindler's List-like movie of the guy who helped bring us out. It was Jacob Henry Schiff (1847-1920). Schiff was a great Jewish hero, there should be statues to this guy. He was the head of Kuhn, Loeb, and rivaled...

Twenty minutes to curtain…Dad: This should be great! I loved The Producers! And I don’t really care for musical theater!Mom: This should be great! I loved The Producers! And I love musical theater!Brother: I’m going to judge the entire show based on the first...

As Clarence Norman's fourth trial gets underway -- this one for allegedly selling judgeships in Brooklyn -- I came across an recent back-issue of Hitz magazine that features a page-long interview with the former Brooklyn lawmaker. The kind-of-poignant end quote: "God forgives but life does...

A Mexican family tries to stay together in the film "My Family." Character descriptions of the family as well as a plot summary.