Overall Fairly Accurate

Rating: 9/10 (23 April 2018)

The film Coco, a movie about a young Latino boy and his journey to the land of the dead during Dia De Los Muertos, resembles the true latino family structure quite well.
According to CultureGrams Online Edition, "Family unity is a very high priority, families usually act as one economic unit"(1). This is very well represented in Coco as the family runs a shoe company and all able members of the family work for the company. This is a near perfect representation as this family is one economic unit and everyone shares in the family company's prosperity.
Another way that the movie accurately represents Latino Culture is through the actual household of the family. In an article written on Latino family structure, Katharine Zeiders states "Many families live under one roof up to the grandparents"(1). This means that grandparents, parents and children all live under one roof, or living with your first cousins as a kid. This is represented in the movie very well as Miguel lives with his parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. He also lives with his Great grandmother but as you could imagine this wasn't mentioned in the article as most people aren't fortunate enough to be alive at the same time as their great grandparents. Another thing Zeiders states is that "Most or all of the parents major possessions are passed down to the oldest son"(3) This is well represented in the movie as all members of the family stress to Miguel that he will be taking over the family's shoe company when he is older.
The only poor representation of family structure in the movie Coco is the number of children in the family. Miguel only has one sibling, a sister. This is slightly unrealistic as most Latino families have three or more children to help them make money. This however is the only issue with the film so overall it was quite accurate.
For this reason I would rate this film a 9/10 on cultural accuracy as there was only one minor flaw in the entire movie.