Mi Vida Loca

Mi Vida Loca

Mothers. Warriors. Sisters. Survivors.

199492 min6.6 / 10

A gritty, intimate portrait of female friendship fractured by betrayal and survival in a poverty-stricken Los Angeles neighborhood where systemic violence and personal tragedy converge.

Two Indigenous Latina bestfriends, Mousie and Sad Girl live in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Indigenous Hispanic American neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.

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