Susan Heick

Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty about the harsh realities of bigotry and the power of family in America of the 1950s. The coming-of-age Chicano drama is based on Tomas Rivera's semiautobiographical 1971 novella.

En la vida de Lisa, una niña de once años, no tienen cabida los juguetes. Está demasiado ocupada cuidando a sus hermanos y cocinando para su madre. Pero el día de Nochebuena, la ventisca la transporta al mundo mágico de Juguetelandia, donde está a punto de celebrarse la boda entre el viejo Barnaby Barnacle y la joven Mary Contrary, que, en realidad, está enamorada Jack Be Nimble. Lisa y sus nuevos amigos tratarán de resolver el conflicto.

Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder.