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Movie review: ‘La Mission’ explores the most important aspect of parenting, unconditional acceptance |
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Written by Stan Robinson
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
 As any of us who are parents know, the first-born is the child we learn how to be parents. We learn of the stages that include discovery of their individuality, likes and dislikes, and their motivations. The final and all encompassing, and truly the hardest is unconditional acceptance, no matter how different they may be from us.
‘La Mission’ with the backdrop of the mission district of San Francisco, brings us into the life of Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt). And he, like most parents, is silently and quietly dealing on the inside with issues of his own, including his past of doing time, a recovering alcoholic, and single parenthood with the responsibility of raising his teenage son Jesse (Jeremy Ray Valdez) after the death of his wife...
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Last Updated ( Friday, 11 June 2010 )
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