HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 35 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘A Better Life’ From ‘About a Boy’ Director Chris Weitz

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on June 29, 2011 - 1:13pm

CHICAGO – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “A Better Life” from Oscar-nominated director Chris Weitz (“The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” “About a Boy” and “The Golden Compass”)!

“A Better Life” stars Demián Bichir, José Julián, Eddie “Piolin” Sotelo, Joaquín Cosio, Nancy Lenehan, Gabriel Chavarria, Bobby Soto, Chelsea Rendon, Trampas Thompson, Tim Griffin, Valorie Hubbard, Dolores Heredia, Isabella Rae Thomas, Carlos Linares and Robert Peters from director Chris Weitz and writers Eric Eason and Roger L. Simon.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “A Better Life” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “A Better Life” from “About a Boy” director Chris Weitz.
Image credit: Summit Entertainment

Here is the plot description for “A Better Life”:

From the director of “About a Boy” and the producers of “A Single Man” and “In Good Company” comes “A Better Life”: a touching, poignant, multi-generational story about a father’s love and the lengths a parent will go to build a better life for his child.

Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him – wanting more than he could give – Carlos’ only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had.

After years of hard work and trying to set an example for his son, he still finds himself drifting apart from Luis. Luis is at an impressionable teen age where succumbing to peer pressure could lead him down a dangerous path. Seeing a way to control their own destiny, Carlos takes what little money he has and invests it all into his own gardening business. Luis believes that is their only chance to stay together and finally achieve the better life he always envisioned for his son.

However, after an unexpected turn of events when everything he’s worked for is suddenly taken away, it is Luis – despite years of growing apart – who teams up with Carlos to take it back. Together, father and son embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover something more important: that family is the most important part of the American dream. The film will be released in the U.S. via Summit Entertainment. The Chicago release date is July 8, 2011. “A Better Life” is rated “PG-13”.

The movie trailer for “A Better Life” can be watched now below.

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What’s the best way for a parent to give a child a better life?

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Parents’ struggles to

Submitted by ajimenez on June 30, 2011 - 4:02am.

Parents’ struggles to secure a better life for their children has undoubtedly become a recurring familial plight in America, though the resolutions are consistently being redefined. While America introduces environments that children inevitably inhabit (i.e. neighborhoods of high crime rates, gang violence, illegal drug usage/trafficking), it is ever more integral that the parent commits to a life-long plan for their children as primary caretakers. Minimally, therefore, the best way that a parent can secure their child a better life is through planning and consistent familiarity amongst each other. Parents must take full responsibility as child bearers until they themselves deem it appropriate to then entrust such responsibility to their children. The familial bond between parent and child must never be broken and must therefore be implanted within a child’s mentality that their relationship with their parents is enduring and limitless. More than likely, this will prevent children from going astray in life (i.e. casted away by the typical vices advertised in contemporary American, and as featured in the film A Better Life). This pattern has been underlined as a motif that has been replicated under multiple households, many of which I have experienced in my own life. Speak with your child until the day of your death, parent. Never exchange your sight of them as your children for a sight that illustrates them as otherwise (i.e. a gang member, drug addict, etc.).

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A Better Life

Submitted by hereisnancy on June 30, 2011 - 5:14am.

The best way to give a child a better life is love, support and emphasizing the power of education.

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better life

Submitted by mickus on June 30, 2011 - 7:52am.

a good home, love and education

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Better Life

Submitted by alittlebitlauren on June 30, 2011 - 8:57am.

The best way for parents to give their children’s better lives is to make decisions in a selfless manner, keeping the child’s best interest in mind.

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What is the best way for a parent to give a child a better life?

Submitted by dc.counts on June 30, 2011 - 9:11am.

in order to give a child a better life you first have to give them love and through love you will do all things neccessary to provide, teach and assist the child throughout life.

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Example and Activity

Submitted by Dion1972 on June 30, 2011 - 9:13am.

To work hard and lead by positive example. And keep the child busy in challenging and educational activities most of the time they are awake. If not they try to find things to get into. This usually manifest itselt in some sort of negative form. Don’t ask me why. It just does.