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**** “Born in East L.A.”
MCA. $89.95. 1987. R. An across-the-board winner, an exuberant crowd-pleaser from writer-director-star Cheech Marin, who casts himself as a third-generation American who nevertheless finds himself deported to Tijuana. Amid the hilarity, Marin makes his points about the second-class nature of U.S. citizenship for minorities and the desperate plight of illegal aliens. With Daniel Stern and Kamala Lopez.
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