The semi obscure John Sayles film
Lone Star
that takes place in a very realistic fictional border town .
Lone Star is a movie about barriers and relationships. The film moves smoothly for the most part from the expansiveness of geographical, racial, judicial, and social relationships and borders to the intimacy of family, and romantic relationships and barriers including forbidden ones. The search for historical truth in the border town and its relationship to the past propels the main plot of the movie as well as each of the side stories. Each of these subplots relates and compliments each additional story line as well as providing insight into the relationships of the movie.
I was at my fave mexican restaurant recently and was struck by how the accommodations, and the interactions of the citizenry in the film were perfectly written in many cases. The only thing missing were the Mexican hotdogs!
I heartily recommend this movie and Mexican Hotdogs!