This was a really great movie to watch because of all the themes it throws at you to think about, the colorful images, the language and the spectacular performance by not only Benjamin Bratt, who is already a well-known actor, but by the kids who, according to Bratt, were just picked off the street in the Mission district of San Francisco. As Bratt explained after the film screening in Chicago (where I saw it) this is not a "coming out" movie about homosexuality. This is a a coming of age movie about a man, a father, a human being with his own dreams and struggles. I loved it.