A Day Without a Mexican Page #2

Synopsis: A thick fog surrounds California's borders, communication beyond state lines is cut off, and the Mexicans disappear: workers, spouses, and business owners are missing. Cars are abandoned in the street, food is left cooking on the stove. We meet the wife of a musician who's gone, a state Senator whose maid doesn't show up for work, and a farm owner whose produce is ripe and unpicked. A scientist asks any Mexicans who haven't disappeared to volunteer for genetic experiments: a female newscaster and the daughter of the musician may be the only missing links around. Why them? And where have all the Mexicans gone? Even the border guards grieve. The state and its economy grind to a halt.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Sergio Arau
Production: Televisa Cine
  3 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.7
Metacritic:
30
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
2004
100 min
$4,047,565
Website
389 Views


Captain Snchez, copied

Somebody spoke to me that A Mexican

he/she never urinates only..

It seems that it was inside

the correct thing

That sounds the homosexual

Sanchez, answer if

he/she listens

I am Yellow Tree

allow to see me that

He/she has a hooter, and I don't have

need to see that..

I see a van

for 50 feet

Snchez, do you copy me?

where this her?

those demons

Sanchez, feel his/her position

That car is of Tree Yellows

no?

oh mierda... don't shoot

Rays, Roberto?

Mierda

Where this? the car deles/delas this but

him not

You believe that you gone there with that

woman Susi

No,

My pezcadito left

He/she stops to cover this,

if he is

This morning at the 6:30 hours the one

emergency service 911

he/she received but 350 calls

informing the disappearance of...

Partners family, employed,

and business proprietors

Where you said that it was

his/her brother?

We are going Jef, I am not none

Latin Reportera

I am a reportera

Lilac, I am Steve Patrix and I saw him/it

in the report of May 5

it was a reportera Rodrguez

he/she wants you to say

He/she informs that of the Mexicans

lost workers

Lost workers

Mexican?

we go, I was born in California...

I am civic of united States

I can make any thing

He/she trusts me, feel something

big, something important

The Mexicans are now

international..

this could be big

3, 2,

Now a report

of Stockton

Lilac beforehand

They left

a comfortable fire..

Sausage, tortillas,

sew personal

But the workers not lost

they left explanations of the absence deles/delas

Good morning Mr. Mclaire

As of the workers deles/delas

did they disappear?

He/she asked me bringing the one

tractor truth?

If

Something eats this him

had he/she happened before?

In passed days

5 or 10

but never something as this

Therefore I will lose her/it all the one

personal

He/she has some idea that there is

last?

ANS does difficult that the people

they come and they stay here

California depends in that the people,

they make this work of fields

Thank him/her for Mr. Mclaire

They are continuous receiving calls

of the people that disappear

In the state of California

Any explanation is

even provident

! Lilac, care,

- Helen?

- If I affect...

- I am making breakfast

- Thank you, the daughter only has care

Leaves of Tracy that right now

- Where what does this Prove?

- I don't know this, it never arrives late

- There are no French fries

- I am cleaning, I didn't cook

- Where this the marmalade?

- On top of there

Oh, forget...

Senator takes to take breakfast

for Tracy

- Brilliant

Ok vmonos of Tracy..

1, 2, 3, 4,

If he/she doesn't upset him/it that you would deteriorate

to pass for the return store to live

I will think this...

He/she only played

Hi I am in substitution of

Jos Velzquez Daz

this is good morning "Report"

What raisin with the graphs?

Is all that we have?

As they can see he/she, we don't have one

clear imgen of the satellite

I listened in a fog finds strange

in the costs and the mountains

That he/she only makes my work

more difficult

Do make the boys that it happened goes?

now we won't have anything

Do I take him the order deles/delas?

- Did he/she make the senator, do hear the news?

- What news?

- do excuse?

I thought that it was alone

He is, he/she waits..

I cannot wait, he/she knows him/it

does that he/she want?

Breakfast of Burrito

This with... Alan?

Nick waits

Extra beans

Black

Nick progress

Senator, is a lot of people that

we cannot find

I cannot communicate with the one

governor Dawson in Washington

Like this I need this here

right now, as governor

What with Santos?, as it is

for the control

Losing, losing,

The General Jumper called of

emergency for a meeting in the capital

immediately

I enter in highway

Mother?

I am right now busy

I sit down for not having...

spoken yesterday... but

tomorrow I speak to you...

this well?

"The size worries"

I sit down this...

even traffic!

Hi aunt's gigi

Hi, what do you make here? I finish him/it

of seeing in TELEVISION

these well?

If I am well, I have little went for the one

hospital but I am well

Do you know where my parents are?

No, but I bet that Teresita

and Jos is seeking him/it

He/she calls to his/her office..

I already made this but they are not

there...

He/she hears, you know that the people

that this that disappears

Ted spoke to me here that

there is many Latin

Or, Muky, everything California

this full with Latin

That believes

Oh my god, I have that

to go for the station

You could speak to me when

see my mother

- If, good-bye affection

- Good-bye

Muky, you forget about his/her magazine

Oh, don't belong to my father

Oh my god..

Hi for everything

Governor Dawson and the one

lieutenant Santos is inaccessible

like this I was asked for

to be the interim governor

It is my duty to declare...

A state of emergency

until not discovering that it happened

with lost people

I ask people from California

not to pull down any panic

And to respect the properties

of the other

On such difficult moments

the only thing that we can...

... to do is to continue with ours

regular activities..

and to pray for the

people from California

911 received a million

calls informing

lost people...

Will this be a Terrorist attack?

People disappeared

without leaving rake, there are no bodies

we will take some conclusions

until receiving the transmiciones

of the military armada that in these

moments are making the report

We waited that them

find something

Did He/she speak to Washington?

No there is any communication far away from the one

State

We have our best

the men and women that work in this

Thank you

A dangerous Fog

he/she continues coming more intimate

authorities recommend him/it

population...

to stay home and not

to try to cross this

No there is any communication out of

the red line

Telephones, Internet any

sign of radio

It cannot penetrate the Fog that

about California..

Isolating the population

of the rest of the world

For all that I am seeing me

I recommend everything

That they don't leave to the streets less the

that it is quite necessary

People struggle among them

he/she seems that a wave of anarchy

he/she had contaminated for the city

only leave

continuous in the same street

but there are many cars

And the traffic this detainee

I see two companions, while being stolen

some Cd

of a car

They are of the Tigers of the one

North so that rays make that

It is same exitante all this...

Lilac

Lilac these there?

In agreement with the armed forces

the damages and losses

that they happened that they are priceless

All the forces are

small for all the

insults that happen

Senator Abercrombie

governor was named

of the state

And what will do close

we will have to guess this... for that

the only thing that we know is that everything

the genta disappeared

The characteristic of everything

these disappearances

it is the descendant deles/delas

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Sergio Arau

Sergio Arau (born Alfonso Sergio Arau Corona; November 14, 1951), also known as "El Uyuyuy", is a Mexican musician, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, film director, film producer, music producer, cartoonist, animator and painter. He is the son of film director Alfonso Arau. Arau rose to prominence as a founding member of the band Botellita de Jerez which was formed in 1983 and created the style Guacarrock. He got his start in Music at the Avandaro Festival in 1971 with his family band "La Ley de Herodes". As a solo artist, he has released three studio albums. Arau has directed music videos, animations, and film. He is best known as a film director for the films A Day Without a Mexican and Naco es Chido.In 2015 he founded the band Los Heavy Mex with members from the Mexican/American band Rusty Eye. more…

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