Eastside

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Eastside ★★ 1999

After being released from prison, Antonio Lopez pays a visit to his successful lawyer brother and learns that he's a mouthpiece for the mob. So Antonio gets an in with East L.A. kingpin De La Rosa as a strongarm guy. Only when he's asked to intimidate the owner of an inner-city youth center, Antonio's latent conscience begins to bother him. Of course, if he betrays De La Rosa, he's dead. 94m/C VHS, DVD . Mario Lopez, Efrain Figueroa, Mark Espinoza, Elizabeth Bogush, Gulshan Grover, Richard Lynch, Carlos Gallardo; D: Lorena David; W: Eric P. Sherman; C: Lisa Wiegand; M: Armando Avila. VIDEO