Under the Same Moon

The debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mother. Adrian Alonso stars as Carlitos, a Mexican adolescent living with his grandmother while his mother works as a maid in the U.S., hoping someday to ...more

The flesh and blood, human element of illegal immigration isn't often explored in films. Many movies that broach the subject often do so from the perspective of lawmen that battle and attempt to halt border hoppers. There's no deep excavation of the motives that drive immigrants to risk life and limb to get the hell out of Dodge. The overly sentimental Under the Same Moon approaches the delicate subject matter from the point of view of illegal aliens who've migrated from Mexico to California ...more