Born in East L.A.
“A comedy bordering on insanity.”
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Born in East L.A. performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$17.4M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$2M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Rudy
Cheech Marin
Rudy
Jimmy
Daniel Stern
Jimmy
Javier
Paul Rodríguez
Javier
McCalister
Jan-Michael Vincent
McCalister
Dolores
Kamala Lopez
Dolores
Gloria
Alma Martinez
Gloria
Feo
Tony Plana
Feo
Lester
Eddie Barth
Lester
Rudy's Mother
Lupe Ontiveros
Rudy's Mother
Tattoo Prisoner
Ronald G. Joseph
Tattoo Prisoner
Border Patrol Sergeant
Noble Willingham
Border Patrol Sergeant
What's Happening Boy
Sal Lopez
What's Happening Boy
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