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Writer (WGA):
Gregory Nava (written by)
Release Date:
22 February 2007 (Germany)
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Tagline:
Lies. Corruption. Murder. One reporter will break the silence.
Plot:
A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination
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(12 articles)
The Chance of Filmmaker Carrera.
(From FilmExperience. 29 September 2009, 6:56 PM, PDT)
Jennifer Lopez Has a Plan B
(From TheMovingPicture. 16 December 2008, 12:08 AM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 29 September 2009, 6:56 PM, PDT)
Jennifer Lopez Has a Plan B
(From TheMovingPicture. 16 December 2008, 12:08 AM, PST)
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not the greatest filming quality, but a must see for its story
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Maya Zapata | ... | Eva Jimenez |
| Irineo Alvarez | ... | Domingo Esparza |
 | Rene Rivera | ... | Aris Rodriguez |
 | Jennifer Lopez | ... | Lauren Adrian |
 | Martin Sheen | ... | George Morgan |
 | Karolinah Villarreal | ... | Young Lauren |
 | Debrianna Mansini | ... | Flight Attendant |
| Randall Batinkoff | ... | Frank Kozerski |
| Gonzalo Mauro Montiel Aguirre | ... | Curandero (as Gonzalo Mauro Montiel) |
 | Antonio Banderas | ... | Alfonso Diaz |
| Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez | ... | Lourdes Jimenez (as Zaide Sylvia Gutierrez) |
| Amelia Zapata | ... | Lourdes's Friend |
 | Julio Cedillo | ... | Julio (as Julio Cesar Cedillo) |
| Jorge Urzua | ... | Eduardo Lopes |
| Ruben G. Rojas | ... | Eduardo's Man (as Ruben Rojas) |
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Rated R for violence including a brutal rape, sexuality, nudity and language.
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112 min
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Loosely based on a series of unsolved murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an industrial border town near El Paso, Texas. Although estimates conflict, innumerable young women have been kidnapped, tortured and murdered since 1993.
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La Camisa Negra
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This is a movie that is not a memorable example of cinematography (the plot is very Hollywood-ish, especially for a movie based on a real story), but the acting is quite good and it does give the viewer a fair idea of what is going on in the far away places (at times not so far after all) where our everyday gizmos are actually built in these days. And it is not a pretty picture, by any means. I think that the movie aimed at exposing the ugly truth of what has been going on right at the US border, where hundreds of women have been slaughtered for the past decade or so. But that was not all, because such nightmare did not, and does not, come out of nowhere: it comes straight out of the disastrous situation that exists in the modern-day sweat-houses (aka as 'manufacturing plants' to the big corporations) and the surrounding favelas where their workers live. And the sweat-houses are a direct consequence of, among the rest, 'trade agreements' like the NAFTA. So, even though some people might not like it, this is a political movie, and very rightly so. And now that I think of it, it does have some good cinematography in it: I find the photography extremely good. I liked the yellowish, desert-like tint that pervades the whole movie.