Taglines: In prison they are the law. On the streets they are the power.
American Me movie storyline. This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen years there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it.
American Me is a 1992 biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos also stars as the film’s protagonist, Montoya Santana. Executive producers included record producer Lou Adler, screenwriter Mutrux, and Irwin Young. It depicts a fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s.
American Me (1992)
Directed by: Edward James Olmos
Starring: Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe, Pepe Serna, Evelina Fernández, Sal Lopez, Roberto Martín Márquez, Dyana Ortelli, Steve Wilcox, Richard Coca
Screenplay by: Floyd Mutrux, Desmond Nakano
Production Design by: Joe Aubel
Cinematography by: Reynaldo Villalobos
Film Editing by: Richard Candib, Arthur Coburn
Costume Design by: Sylvia Vega-Vasquez
Set Decoration by: Martin Price
Art Direction by: Richard Toyon
Music by: Claude Gaudette, Dennis Lambert
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and sensuality, and for language and drug content.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: March 13, 1992
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