this certainly live up to expectation of be a nice movie and an involve story about a young mexican boy who sneak into the united state to try to find his mother in los angeles . she have be in l. a. for four year and and frankly and i forget why . they do not dwell on that and but there must have be a good reason since she love the kid and vice versa . each sunday morning at 10 and she call him from the same spot . that a key to the story . when the woman mother dy and carlito grandmother who have be look after the young boy and the kid decide his option aren not good at that point and he need to take a big chance to see if he can find his way to los angeles . yes and you have to suspend your belief here a bit and a the odds on a kid actually be able to do that all with no money . be astronomical and but it fun to watch him on his journey and how he make do with what little he have . some of the friendship he make be truly touching and in a way and the best part of the film . while write this and it make me flashback to the film the straight story when an old man on a tractor drive 300 mile across iowa to see his long lose brother . he be befriend by many people along the way and some who go to extraordinary length to help a stranger . that the case here and too . we also get a good profile of the mother and her best friend and a wonderful man she meet during this story and which take place in one week . each chapter of the film be break down into day . yes and the film be slightly preachy concern immigration but the story be so good that one forget about the political aspect and no matter side one be on . this be a pretty solidly make film and from direct to act to the visuals but it the story that will hook you in early on and you aren not able to let go until the end . the last half hour will keep you on the edge of your seat and wonder exactly thing how will turn out . that good and because it mean the movie be entertain . definitely recommend .