Day Without A Mexican . Tucson Weekly . 04-19-99

Day Without A Mexican

DIRECTED BY: Hombre Sin-Nombre

REVIEWED: 04-19-99

This mockumentary tells of what happens when all of California's Hispanics vanish at once. People wake up to find that their husbands, gardeners, baby sitters, stevedores, mechanics, doctors and business partners have disappeared without trace. Interviews and newscasts follow the story, from the man who learns that only Mexican mechanics know how to fix Japanese cars, to the woman who winds up paying $100 for a head of lettuce on the black market, to the Egyptian man who is hounded by people asking if he is Mexican. With the Internet blacked out by the loss of communications workers, one nerd notes that we have "underestimated the relation between Mexicans and downloading." By interpolating comedy with actual statistics about the importance of the Hispanic population to the economy and culture of California, Day without a Mexican educates without being didactic.

--James DiGiovanna

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