Commissioned by Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum as a half-hour short and expanded to feature length, Sergio Arau's mockumentary envisions the chaos that would ensue if every Mexican in California were to vanish without a trace. Athletes, undocumented farm workers, businessmen, television personalities, nannies, actors, busboys … all just gone. An eerie pink fog isolates the state from the rest of the world, the governor is unreachable in Washington and his second-in-command is among the vanished, so Senator Abercrombie (John Getz), who won his seat on an anti-immigration platform, becomes acting governor and must confront the truth head on. Mexicans make up...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
100 mins