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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 29, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kevin Kline | |
Performer: | Cesar Ramos, Alicja Bachleda, Paulina Gaitan, Kate del Castillo, Anthony Crivello & Zack Ward | |
Directed by | Marco Kreuzpaintner | |
Screenwriting by | Jose Rivera | |
Composition by | Jacobo Lieberman & Leonardo Heiblum | |
Story by | Peter Landesman & Jose Rivera | |
Produced by | Roland Emmerich & Roslyn Heller | |
Director of Photography: | Daniel Gottschalk |
Entertainment Reviews:
A brutal, shattering story of child trafficking that is intended to deliver a sobering punch about the global human trafficking trade, Marco Kreutzpaintner's powerful drama is in fact based on investigative reports in the New York Times.
Full Review
Urban Cinefile
[TRADE] introduces a number of appealing characters....Ramos adds some moral complexity to the story.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
Rating: 3/5 --
Heartfelt and fitfully suspenseful, it's grim, message-led stuff.
Metro (UK)
A documentary about sex trafficking might have been more powerful. Dramatizing the subject in this fashion, with a race-against-time road trip, breathless online bidding and a couple of different happy endings, simply cheapens it.
Associated Press
The filmmaker tries to keep the energy up and the audience engaged by incorporating stylistic touches from the Michael Bay 101 crib sheet, whirling the camera around characters in crisis and lacing scenes with hack guitar rock.
Newark Star-Ledger
Rating: 2/5 --
Jose Rivera's script plays uneasily, as do some of the directorial flourishes: the shots of rose stems and caged birds are galumphingly emphatic at moments that need no underlining.
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Independent (UK)
3 stars out of 4 -- TRADE is a compelling and terrifying look at a serious global problem.
USA Today
Product Description:
At once soft-hearted and hard-edged, TRADE provides a compassionate look at an ugly world. In Mexico City, men kidnap13-year-old Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) with the intent of selling her virginity to the highest bidder. Young Polish beauty Veronica (Alicja Bachleda) is held captive by the same men, and they threaten her young son across the ocean. As the criminals mistreat their victims, Veronica is Adriana's only solace as she is taken farther and farther away from home. Meanwhile, Adriana's older brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), begins to track his sister across the Mexican border into Texas and through the United States. On his mission, he runs into a Texas cop named Ray (Kevin Kline) who agrees to help him without ever really saying why.
TRADE isn't escapist fare: it's a socially conscious film that doesn't flinch from the most painful of details about the sex trade. There's rape, pedophilia, and suicide, and the film doesn't look away or glance over the horrors. This is German director Marco Kreuzpainter's first film on these shores, but he works like an assured veteran. After working for decades in the film industry, Kline is often most highly praised for his work in comedies such as DAVE and A FISH CALLED WANDA, but he's quite adept in this serious drama. Young actors Ramos and Gaitan are making their major feature debut with TRADE, but they both communicate the fear and frustration of their characters with remarkable skill.
TRADE isn't escapist fare: it's a socially conscious film that doesn't flinch from the most painful of details about the sex trade. There's rape, pedophilia, and suicide, and the film doesn't look away or glance over the horrors. This is German director Marco Kreuzpainter's first film on these shores, but he works like an assured veteran. After working for decades in the film industry, Kline is often most highly praised for his work in comedies such as DAVE and A FISH CALLED WANDA, but he's quite adept in this serious drama. Young actors Ramos and Gaitan are making their major feature debut with TRADE, but they both communicate the fear and frustration of their characters with remarkable skill.
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