From Mexico with Love is a 2009 American action-drama film directed by Jimmy Nickerson and starring Kuno Becker, Steven Bauer, Danay Garcia, Bruce McGill, and Stephen Lang.
Hector Villa is a young Mexican national and border-crossing migrant and worker with boxing abilities mirroring his late father's.
Despite all of this, Hector is a hard worker on a Texas farm who does what he can to provide for his ailing mother which includes pulling in a few side dollars from small-time, illegal gambling fights.
She scolds Hector for fighting to make money and reminds him that a fighter's lifestyle gave his father nothing.
After a hard day’s work, Maria is stopped and charmed by the farm owner's cocky and pugilist son Robert while Hector looks on with uncertainty.
"Big Al" Stevens, the racist and brutish farm owner, and Robert's father show up.
Driven to the border and dumped off in a porta potty, Hector fumes all the way to a boxing gym where he sees Billy Jenks.
Hector arrives in time to comfort his mother as she dies and takes her coffin back to Mexico to bury her.
Tito wards away the border patrol by comically telling them an embarrassing story about one of the agents who forgets to check the van and leaves.
Meanwhile, Robert refuses to take steroids believing he doesn't need them against Hector and Al reminds him that the fate of the farm depends on him.
As the fight begins, it becomes apparent that Hector is outclassed by Robert who is 30 pounds heavier and much more experienced getting knocked down several times.
The movie ends with Hector living happily with Maria in Mexico on a ranch which he named after his mother with Tito and all the other workers.
Joe Leydon of Variety called the film "An inaptly titled and thoroughly predictable indie drama",[2] whereas Marc Savlov from The Austin Chronicle said "This up-from-the-fields slice of Tejano pride is a punchy, melodramatic piece of tried-and-true Americana that mixes cultures (and film genres) with an eye toward knocking down borders both cultural and contemporary.