G. I. Jesus (2006)

Director
Carl Colpaert

Main cast
Joe Arquette; Patrícia Mota; Telana Lynum; Maurizio Rasti

Genres
Drama

Description
A Mexican national, Jesus Feliciano, returning to California from Iraq where he had soldiered in exchange for grant of US citizenship, suffers trauma related to his battle experience and imagines his family life threatened.


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