--- title: 'American Me (1992)' type: 'film' director: 'Edward James Olmos' released: '1992-01-01' runtime_minutes: 125 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/american-me-1992' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103671/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # American Me (1992) 1992 · 125 min · Drama, History, Crime · United States ## Synopsis American Me is a 1992 American crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano. Olmos stars as Montoya Santana, who is loosely based on Mexican Mafia boss Rodolfo Cadena. Executive producers included record producer Lou Adler, screenwriter Mutrux, and Irwin Young. The film is a fictionalized account of the founding and rise to power of the Mexican Mafia in the California prison system from the 1950s into the 1980s. The film received positive reviews from critics but was a box office failure. ## Credits - **Director:** [Edward James Olmos](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-james-olmos) - **Screenplay:** [Desmond Nakano](https://cinepixo.com/people/desmond-nakano) - **Producer:** [Lou Adler](https://cinepixo.com/people/lou-adler), [Robert Milton Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-milton-young), [Sean Daniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sean-daniel), [Floyd Mutrux](https://cinepixo.com/people/floyd-mutrux) - **Director of Photography:** [Reynaldo Villalobos](https://cinepixo.com/people/reynaldo-villalobos) ## Cast - [Pepe Serna](https://cinepixo.com/people/pepe-serna) - [William Forsythe](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-forsythe) - [Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/cary-hiroyuki-tagawa) - [Eric Close](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-close) - [Edward James Olmos](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-james-olmos) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/american-me-1992 Film facts: Wikidata (Q642516); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.